LAND AGGREGATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 288, 24 August 1918, Page 10

LAND AGGREGATION

NEW LEGISLATION, BEING PREPARED.

( 1 Speaking at a meeting of the farmers ' "who are tho owners of the Cheltenham Dairy. Factory the other day, the Hon. '•D. H. Guthrie referred to the question of land aggregation. The farmers had previously carried a resolution at tho meeting "in which they condemned the Government for permitting this evil to contiaue.

Mr. Guthrie arrived at tho meeting after the resolution had been passed. "Yo.i are against aggregation," ho said; "so am I, strongly ngainst it. AVo put legislation on tho Statute-book _in 1913 thinking wo were going to prohibit aggre- • gation, but it has not had that effect. > The position is that I have discussed the question with my officers, and the matter of preparing suitable legislation is in hand at the present time. I don't know ■whether during the term of the National Government it will bB deemed to be contentious legislation or not, but I don't think so. . . . "Another question in connection ijith land administration is receiving my attention, and that is the preparation of legislation to deal with enemy aliens acquiring land in this country. This will come before the House next session." PRICES FOR SEEDY WOOL By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, August 23. The Auckland Wool-grower*' Commit- . tee carried the following resolution, to ■ 1» transmitted to the Minister of Lands: ■ "'Owing' to numerous complaints from the growers of seedy wool, the committee ' must emphatically bring 'before your notice the fact that the agreement with the Imperial authorities is not being carTied out as growers are not receiving a 5-3 per cent, increase on pre-war prices, but in many cases QTe receiving ICQ per cent less." The resolution urged that immediate action be taken.