PERSONAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10766, 15 May 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr John Kelland, a member ol: the well-known family of sheep-breeders, who is retiring from farming after do years at Kakahu (states a Timaru telewas presented with a mark ot esteem hv a number of old friends. Inmaking the presentation Mr John lalbot made interesting remarks on the different estimation in Which farmers were held to-dav and when Mr Kelland began farming, 'in those days farmers were not considered the "backbone of the country," but interlopers, and contemptuously called cockatoos by the runholders, whom they were displacing.