AN ENTHUSIAST A LITTLE BIT ANGRY

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 April 1916, Page 3

AN ENTHUSIAST A LITTLE BIT ANGRY

(Wannate Advertiser). AVe shall be doing no disseivice to the cause of land s.-'ttltjinent generally and landless i-oldiieis, iu particular n wo present the view on one or two matters, as expressed to us this morning, of bucli a Liberal ol the oh 1 fashion as Air John Anstey, Ai.i'., is acknowledged to be. .first, there is the fioniuoro ballot. A turore lias been raised in North Otago over a man eligible for the trout, who lias two single brothers at iiis fatkor s form, one of whom has been before the S.M. Court, for discouraging recruiting, getting nianied pile week and drawing a section the next, thereby keeping some landless soldrier out of a choice holding. -Mr Anstey is demanding that Mr Maasey shall exercise his power and veto the allotment. .Next, the member for ANaitaki claims that the tact that four absent soldiers hove been allotted .Bonnlore sections on proxy applications (but ho shrewdly suspects dummyism) proves that he was quite right in declaring the main run suitable for soldiers. Moreover the Otago University leases have been bought by a "wealthy class of people who are almost certain to take advantage of the retrogression non-residence clause. 80-aggregation is permitted, also by "granting to a soldiers father a section when already hi l has three large places. The flat that had been reserved for Soldiers was good grazing, bu-t cut up too small. Two hundred eheop were too Jew to tempt a man out there. Besides, the snow on that flat_was very bad, there being no steeps to afford harborage. A log that settled there and. troze the icebilled the lambs as they were droppd- Finally Mir Anstey advocates tKe State purchase of 300 mores on offer at Pukeuri, to be cut. up into 30 sections for slaughtermen's homes. Or ass V, the Department had bought a 6to-acre place at Hilderthorpe. four mile* away,' and is offering two 240 acre portions for settlement at 7s per acre, "proposing to (subdivide the balance for the Pulfneri men and charge 17s per acre. Often the men hav© to work til midnight without notice, and so desire to live handy.