The following description of the production of "The periscope" is taken from p. 17 of Austin's history: "On the "Maunganui," the ship's disused printing-press was commandeered, and a weird and wonderful magazine, called "The Periscope," was produced. It was an eight-paged paper, printed with decrepit type and faded ink, on such sheets of absorbent paper as could be spared from the battalion orderly- room; a poor thing, doubtless, but nevertheless prized as being entirely our own. At Fremantle, by means of judicious purchases, the type-founts were augmented and a supply of paper and ink laid in, and as a result there blossomed forth, before we reached our destination, a second number of the magazine, somewhat thin in bulk, yet resplendent in its crimson binding and gold lettering. An endeavour had been made to secure a green cover, as more fitting for a Rifle Brigade paper, but the resources of Fremantle proved to be limited."