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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1562, 19 September 1905, Page 2

_" Meroutio,” in the Auckland Herald gives the following interesting analysis : The report of the Land Commission is the bulkiest tome ever issued from the Government Printing Office, and an analysis furnishes some interesting results. There ore 1.917,852 words from oover to oover. and 9,784,071 letters, of which 81,675 . are numerals. If a man said a word every mile he would have to run nearly 87 timee round the earth before he had finished saying it. If he read it aloud at the rata of twenty words a minute for half-an-bour an evening, omitting Sundays, holidays, and Saturday afternoons, it would teke him ten years four months and 19 days to read it through. The letters put end to end would go right round the North Island, and leave something over for the South. The volumes primal, piled on top of one another, would reach as high as Bangitoto. If the pile dropped it would reach the ground with the force of 987 tons dropped a foot. That would be bad even for Mr Seddon if he were underThe weight of the volumes printed is somewhere about two tons, equal in weight to one pound of tobabeo for every Maori in the colony. The oost of the report would give this pound of tobacco to every Maori very comfortably and leavo enough to give halfa-pound to every adult male pakeba. Thero are other analytical results, but these will sumoa to _oonvinos the public of the tremendous importance of tbe Land Commit, «wu report,