Rock is a confectionery made and sold in many of the UK's seaside holiday resorts. As the character Ida says in Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock[?], "It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton."
... Sakhalin Times, a fortnightly English newspaper published in Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (http://www.sakhalintimes.com/)
See C. H. Hawes, In the Uttermost East (London, 1903). ...