FORESAW WHAT WOULD COME TO PASS
— Press Association
By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, July 25. The position which has arisen with the Hamilton Land Saies Committee had been predicted by the Farmers' Union in 1943 when the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Saies Bill was brought down, said an official statement issued by the Union tonight. At that time the Union urged that the appointment of members of the coinmittees should be for a definite term. The fact that members of. com-j mittees were to hold office "during the pleasure of the Governor-General," and; would tlierefore be subjeet to Minis- - terial influence, was one^of the reasons why the Union had urged its members not to aecept appointments to coinmittees. Tlfe recent liappenings in regard to the Hamilton Committee proved that the apprehcnsions of the Farmers' Union in 1943 had been abundantly justified. They also proved that the alternative proposals made by the Union at that time, would have provided a scheme of control of land priees mueh less subjeet to abusc than the existing one. It was a pity that those proposals had not been adopted by the Government. Had they been aecepted the present unfor-tun-ate position would never have arisen.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 July 1946, Page 5
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