FRONT PAGE VERSE
Humorous verse has for 50 years been the rarest form of art or recreation to be presented in more than a newspaper setting in New Zealand. One volume is published, and immediately, as a result of mere coincidence, two more follow it, which might appear as a spate in our community. It can be said at once- of the latest volume — ' Front Page Verse,' by F. W. G. Miller, reprinted from the Invercargill newspapers—that the verses are amusing. It would be difficult to conceive of a rebuke to politicians being conveyed more good-naturedly and humorously, and at the same time effectively, than the lines which record how Southland was not allowed to see the Lancaster on its recent visit. The domestic history of the City Council's wallabies, the innovation of the licensing trust, an affectation of some broadcasting announcers, the opening of the duck shooting season, and absence of cream at Christmas are examples of other subjects on which the writer expends his mirth in verses unpretentious, but often of considerable ingenuity and always diverting. 111. Folley and Son Ltd., Invercargill, publishers
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Evening Star, Issue 25678, 29 December 1945, Page 8
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185FRONT PAGE VERSE Evening Star, Issue 25678, 29 December 1945, Page 8
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