THE LAND SCANDAL.
REMARKABLE EXPLANATION.
WILLIS INGENIOUSLY ABUSE THE PRESS.
By Telegraph—Press Assaaiation—Copyright Received 9.51 p.m., May 10. • Sydney, May 10.
At the Lands Commission Willis, examined, ea : d his object for undertaking to have the leases converted was that they were situated in an arid district. Though the land laws did not provide for it be thought no reasonable Minister or Department would object to a method being adopted whereby the people thereon were put in a financial and proper position. Until something like what he proposed wbb done the whole people would be hunted oil the land. He explained the heavy charges by stating that the case was unique and would have to be dragged through the whole of the courts of law. Still, if allowed to carry through, he believed he would have won. _ He emphatically denied that Mr Crick, the then Minister of Lands, was in any way interested in the matter. He hotly denounced the press, by whom, he said, he hadbeen scandalously treated,as “scurrilous hounds."
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1451, 11 May 1905, Page 2
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