BACK TO THE LAND
THE WAY TO PROGRESS
UNITED PARTY'S IDEAL
"Unless you develop your lands you ■will, never prosper," said Air. Kerr (United) at Alicetown last night. "The United Party has a policy to help the man who wants to go on the land. My Reform opponent says, 'Don't put men on tho land.' That is quite wrong. The true foundation of progress is the land. Reform bought rough country and put returned soldiers on it, collected the • first quarter's rent, and then left the men to struggle. That is not what the United Party will do. First, it will road the land, and then it will provide the farmer with funds to develop it. There are 30,000 boys leaving school, and our secondary industries can absorb only 4000 of them. The others should be encouraged to go on the land. The first foundation of success is a good land policy, and if only this foundation can be built strongly enough it will carry the other industries also." (Applause.) The meeting was presided over by Mr. S. Clendon. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried with only two dissentients.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 13
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191BACK TO THE LAND Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 13
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