PLAIN REPLY TO HON. J. A. MILLAR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1127, 15 May 1911, Page 4

PLAIN REPLY TO HON. J. A. MILLAR.

ME. MASfeET IN GOOD FORM. (By Telegraph-Press AsEociation.l Auckland, May 13. Mr. W. P. Massey was entertained at a banquet at Puhoi last night. Replying to the Hon. Mr. Millar's speech at Dunedin, Mr. Mnssoy said that tho ActingMinister of Finance had explained that some- millions of acres of Native land were lying idle because the Native Minister did not want to impoverish his people. No one wanted to demoralise the Native people, but the man who had done more in that direction than any other man was the Acting-Prime Minister. If Mr. Carroll desired to stand between the desire for settlement and the settlement of Nativo lands, he ventured to say Mr. Carroll should be told to get out of tho way. The sooner he did so the better for all concerned. He said that a serious injustice had b?en dono the An rid aml provincial district by locking up 91)0,000 aores Vii •■ F ovino ° as a national endowment. Whilo it was degenerating into a hotbed lor various weeds hundreds of people were landless. The Hon. Mr. Millar, at Dunedm, made much ■ of the fact that the revenue had .increased by. over a million .poundsJ •iiThc!-inbr.ensG>liV>reV-emio was the result of legislation which provided for increased taxation of the great bulk of tho people. _ Mr. Millar did not give tho increase in the country's indebtedness during the financial year: it was between six and seven millions'.