THE LAND SCANDAL.
MR CRICK’S DEFENCE. By Electric Telegraph—Per Press 'Association—Copyright. Received 11.56 p.m., June 14. Sydney, June 14. At tho Lands Commission Mr Crick was lengthily examined. Replying to adverse criticisms he defended his action as Minister in allowing oeeupaats of holdings thrown open on improvement leases preferential right to retain a portion for the preservation of their stock. He admitted that he had stretched the Act, but he was determined not to let old settlers’ homes be broken up. He alleged that every time land was put up to enable an old lessee to get it, he was blackmailed right and left. In reference to the witness Speight, he came to him with a scheme to speculate in land. It was absolutely illegal, and the coolest bit of effrontery ever heard, He decided that Speight should never have an aere of land. He had brought on himself the anathemas of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association because he did not tako the land from squatters and give it to them indiscriminately.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1481, 15 June 1905, Page 2
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