LAND QUESTION.
THE FREEHOLD OF NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS. WELLINGTON, Nov 4. “I am a straight-out freeholder, hut it is no use raising any false hopes about tho. granting* of the freehold or the national endowment lands,” said the Prime Minister-in replying to a Farmers’ Union deputation. “I npprecite the force of the argument that m the ease of third-class land, it the tenuie is not sufficiently secure, the land wi 11 ho allowed to become exhausted. I hat has happened already in the ease ot some of the pastoral runs. But I can assure you Here is not tlm slightest chance < f r'iamcnt agreeing to the sugestim have made that the freehold ikii.tid bo granted to the lessees of national endowments. T think my colleagues will endorse that opinion. A delegate: What about another 1 nrliament? , Air Massey: Well, that is another cmestlon, lam speaking of tho present Parliament.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1918, Page 3
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148LAND QUESTION. Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1918, Page 3
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