Text from candlestick certificate:

'Extract from the "Sun," Auckland, 2nd December , 1927.

Historic Metal from H.M.S. New Zealand

New Lamps for Old

Searchlights in Auckland

GUN-METAL stripped from H.M.S. New Zealand, which was presented to Britain just before the war, and scrapped just after it, is being converted into handsom candlesticks and souvenirs by an Auckland firm, MacEwans Machinery Ltd.

Pictures elsewhere in ths issue show the searchlight control pedestal from which the metal is being secured. "For a long time, with another which is to go to the Auckland Museum, the pedestal lay at the Devonport naval dockyard and its origin is vouched for in the following official memorandum: "Issued from the ordnance workshops, Devonport, 1,300lb. of gun-metal stripped from obsolete searchlights of H.M.S. New Zealand.

Carrying only a tiny flame, compared with the brilliant beam of the vanished warship's searchlights the candlesticks will nevertheless perpetuate a definite tradition and always about them will cling the memory of a gallant ship, steaming into action under the New Zealand flag as well as the White Ensign, and with a defiant Maori tiki on the conning-tower.

This is to certify that all soiuvenirs manufactured by MacEwans Machinery ltd., from gun-metal off H.M.S. New Zealand bear our seal as shown in left-hand corner of this certificate.

Signed O.G. Lindstrom Works Manager. R. Daniel Foundry Foreman."