LAND COMMISSION

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1390, 27 February 1905, Page 3

LAND COMMISSION

TOMFOOLERY AT INVERCARGILL The following extract from on Invercargill telegram shows how tho Land Commission is waeting money : The Land Commission heard further evidence in Tuveroargill to-day. The Commission is not being besieged with witnesses ; indeed it looked at one time as if the Commission would have to take a day off. The members of the local Land Board, however, came to the roscue and gave more or less interesting evidence, though nothing new was elicited. Mr Andrew Kinross, a member of the Land Board, who gave evidence yesterday, attended and presented the Commissioners, through the chairman, with a copy of a book he had published, entitled,

“ My Life and Lays.” The Chairman said ho knew the book, and he assured the members of the Commission that they would find it very interesting. It containing poetry and prose, and love and romanoe. ,• Mr MoCardie said tho Commissioners would need to be oareful of the love part of it. (Laughtor.) A dip into Mr Kinross’ literary effort certainly shows that it will prove interesting, and may while away a few dull moments in the peregrinations cf the Commission. Most of the author’s life has been spent outside the centres of culture, yet twanging his lyre he sings: Give me a life in the city; Where ladies are charming and gay, : Where we meet with the wisß and the witty, And life passes brightly away. Mr Kinross, in addition to being a. student of our prosaic land laws, iB not only a poet, but also a student of human nature. “ Girls,” he says, “ are often partial to sailors.” So on occasion, when ho had to compete with the bold mariners, he writes, “I got a good'cloth suit made, with silk facings, buttons, etc. I met I several young ladies who wore kind and agreeable, aDd have still retained a place in my heart.’h