Well, you see, I was temporarily in command of the cruiser coming down the Baltic, and passing an island rock a few miles away, I thought it would be a good opportunity to test a new gun that had been put aboard when we left England.

'Who is she, anyway? Interfering . . . pestering . . . you must know.' 'I don't know her from Adam,' the Boy said.

My love is fair, my love is gay, As fresh as been the flowers in May;

Early Miocene fossiliferous andesitic sediments are associated with some ophiolite massifs in northern Northland: Otaian volcanic grits (Hughes 1966) form a part of Maungaru Range (Fig. 3) and Waitakian–Otaian volcaniclastics are intruded by microdiorite near North Cape (Leitch 1966, 1970).