TAKING A NAP.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 514, 22 May 1909, Page 13

TAKING A NAP.

AMTJSJNQ LAND BOARD INCIDENT. : * (M TiLiattArn.—spbcui. coitnisroNDiNT.l Napier, May 21.' •, !Ai> ftmqsing iripic|ent occurred at the meeting of thp Hawke's Bay Land' Board to-day. The ordinary monthly (noeting of the bon/rd heW Friday had to lapSp owing'to Mr. Eustace ' Lane, the representative _of tho. Orijwn 'toflantei . talcing' a nap during the lupcjieon adfottfliment, and ..failing-tp wake :HP in time for tho board to resume. At that iMcting Lfjnp' was tq havq movod the fqjlowmg potion: "Thiri boaa-d, ; while 'approving Of 1 tho proposed purchase of Mr. Tpngpio Estate for' closer settlement, drjws - the attention of the Government fp tho suitability of. muoh of tho iEfawkp's Bay province for closer spttiemont, and '.considers that money borrowed for ploger.'gettjpmcnt constitutes <1 far better del'cnpo of thosp islands'than-tho offor to Britain pf empty Dreadnoughts, which 1 a singlo btoiinb may send to the .bottom /': : .' The unfinished busipess of the h>st mefibi ipg was completed at 'a meeting of tho /'called: for tho .this _ morning. the general, business had _been disMr. Lane asked if ho might move his motion. , ; „ -V The chairman (Mr. T. N. Brodriok) said he was afraid the motion Had lapsed owing to not" haying been, moved at the last meeth ing. ■. ' ; . Mr: Lane said that if this was the ohauv man's view he wasquite prepared to-agree to it. • Thn press and tho Lapd Board were evidently prepared to give greater; weight ta him" when 'he was asleep than in his wak* ihg mninents. Tho pr®s[ would not pwhv lish his views on this. question, but gayo promirionce to the fact when he went to sleep. He was quite content if he icould by going to sleep dirsct the attention of the GovciTimont to tho rotten position they had tho beard by leaving it for months without a chairman. The other business of the.board, howeverj- had been adiournptV and he tihQiiglit his, jvotifti have been dealt with'in the samo .way._;lf the lioard did not caro to waste its_ timo •tW-it would only bave to (\q. sp again. " The ohairrrian saisl it npt_ an jpurnod Tnentinn a onp. ', .Mr,/6. Wright ar;rof-d wtn the-chairman, hilt said ho. would havp etipn?eq the motion. V he dirt nnt- thinl< poh'tieal mnttern. shofl'o bo introilueed "t thp hoard meetings. . , Mr, .Lane s«if}. it w linrn ; to define what- wu politip! .mat-tpr. • . Rej!PT<m t end OYf r T^Wn' T . PUO.were vrift. pontic?. Mr. 1 "Wright .1# rpformV to'; party I haye ■. gqt: nptjling to 40 with part' politics. I abpye it.. Aftpr spipo furt)!°r cnnyprsatipnal aiscus- • :.N .' , ; .;. Mr, L'ane,.drawiniT a written wwch from hi? popkf.t, sfi((: "There are \T(iv 'fiewii and I am wy sorry I ajp pot; to bava the op-' POrtmiity of %m. - Wr.,,Lane, ho W n Pld notina qf tho sapie tjon for/the nijxt meeting, ; .