GERMAN TREATY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19994, 20 July 1939, Page 14

GERMAN TREATY

TRADE OF DOMINION SIR A. RANSOM’S VIEW DIEM AND ID L\K< >IL\I ATION !AXI) POLICY ATTACKED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The debate was continued in the House of Representatives last evening hv Sir Alfred Ransom < Nat.. Pahiatua) vho stated that prices of dairying land ’•ad fallen since Labour assumed oflier cad that was scarcely an indication hat. the guaranteed price had been a aicccss. I-Io then went on to deal with the oueslion of the barter agreement be'ween New Zealand and Germany. This, he said, had been fixed to last wo years and was due to expire in September, but no information had •seen given of its success or otherwise. Mr. J. G. Barclay (Lab., MarsdonV several statements have been made or it. Sir Alfred Ransom said that under he agreement New Zealand hac •greed to take certain commodities Tom Germany which, in turn, would ake an equal value in Now Zcalanc iroduee. We had sent a cerium quaility of New Zealand butter to Gernany, and 'he wanted to know Inat hat. country had not sold New Zeaand butter again on the London oarket. (Government laughter.) Sir Alfred Ranscm: The honourable •ontlcmen may laugh, but that is what term any did in connection with the iroduee of the Argentine and other :ountrics, and there is no reason why ;hc should not have done so in the case of New Zealand.

Then, he asked, what had the Gov'iomeni done in connection with land ■ettlemcnt in the Dominion? The Minister of Lands’ plea that he could •ot proceed with a settlement scheme iecau.se he had not the authority of he House to purchase the necessary and was utter bosh. The policy of the government was to own the land, and he people on it would become the ervants of the State.