DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1927, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

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VERDICT FOR CLAIMANTS.

AUCKLAND, Afay 3,

In the compensation claims against J. B. Ferguson, contractors, the Court gave judgment for Airs O’Callaghan for £SO, and for Bloomfield for £75, with costs of six guineas each, and special expenses allowance for live pounds to Bloomfield. Defendant was directed also to pay £2O funeral expenses, together with ambulance and doctor’s lees.

BREACH OF EXPLOSIVES LAW. WELLINGTON, May 3.

John Bradshaw Chapman was to-day fined £1 for having delivered explosives to George Burton Styles, a person not authorised to receive them by virture of a permit issued by the police officer. Styles was fined £3.

THE AIOXOPOLY EVIL. AVHANGAREI, Alav 3.

In an address this evening to an audience of 250 people, in the Town Hall, Mr 11. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, spoke on Labour’s point of view of the land question and dairy control.

The speaker dealt largely with aggiegation which had taken place in the last ten years, showing that eight per cent of the landholders held G 9 per cent of rural laud, while 92 ]>or cent of the landholders had only tile balance of 31 per cent.

Air Holland put forward the leasehold with use and graduation, together with a steeply-graduated land tax, the utilisation of State credits, as tho remedy for this monopoly. Air Holland also outlined at length

the manoeuvres which led up to the discrediting of the Dairy Control Board, and he strongly criticised Air Coates for his part in the affair. He advocated the extension of the co-oper-ative system to enhance other food products, and the setting up of a Food Purchasing Council in England to arrange an effective and equitable exchange of products. This would bring a real inter-Empire preference.