LAND AGGREGATION.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 3 December 1919, Page 3

LAND AGGREGATION.

To the Editor. sir _My loathing of the unscrupulous electioneering methods aisplaye in the letter signed “Reformer “P pearing in your tssue of Wednesday wLd p»»pt n» furnishing a reply were it not that g section of the publie might gather from my silence that there was something to keep back, whereas the truth is that there is absolutely nothing in the transactions referred to or indeed in any transactions of mnm wlu will not bear the closest any way reflecting on myself 0 "L.J family- The the public will, I am sure, regard letter in question as. a most palt y attempt to discredit a political oppon ent This dastardly attack was immediately followed at my Levin meeting Thursday by a similar one from the T T^ an 0 f my official Labour oppon- • time held an extensive area of lan. ZZ%i having in contemplation the of Mr York’s going into camp to secure that gentleman’s farm of • ,„y wife and it to be about 3500 acres, m addition to -which there is about 500 acres' o “ hold lat one time owned 12} acres ernment by Act m ao » offered the Government £-00 to ne flowed to keep Ibis. I have, however, „„o, dxeamed of lioyfaE “W to,eat io the island, and Aot llfquosUon p“S» «“ s™“ SS.W,r*i£.* = pt£^ m tO d S?a^it a -a« purchased ■by Mr Evans, who subsequently eci •huvincr which was accepted by ny S With regard to the transaciamuy. if there had ticms m tho Gazette gi , y been anything to f-« C J ; have withheld the gazetting until after the election. Under these transactions JiS toS increase of holding » Ji acres. 1 have two boys farming on •Waikanao lands, aad a tilT ' J' of tends to become a farmer. O two is a returned soldier, who S avc £ his medical studies in order . to g ° h | front, and who after passing through , omc of tho worst horrors of tl c has returned home seriously impaired in health by gas poisoning and bemg freehold at the special request of the Stive owners, who, live m , Zata of the Dominion. Apart fro j conversion all the transactions m the “Gazette” refer toenail areas of land, two of which it becomes vitallv •necessary to secure in order t •T c rSvf«^S r Slys«w°^ 'g&S&XXZZ which are i the conif pot continued. WaikanaP Sver would inevitably have changed gUrse and worked ‘oje valuable £ tota l holdZ d cpn»? y sOotaS condition of dn t an j has valueless when L ™* itan rn nning well since by « TcndCTe d stable, into four figures wa x variolJ s and is carrying veg lesson for Linds. It forms an object the whole Dominion. other acres is in preserved - “ aeref 1 of'beautiful .bush' on eludes a 64 aeres o w hich the Waikanae-Upper Hutt K if would have been a. sm to tci, \Zh I tried to get the Government io bvr but having failed, purchased myself, in the hope that the ® tat ?J? j + hl[ . over at the price I paid for K Of the, remainder of the freehold bv far tic greater portion is composed of sandhill land and swamps, some of whicT arc undminable, and two akes v- £ £vo been gazetted a sanctuary " C owL contend m °<S h and b full 'current value 6p en mark . was BOt hing to prepaid for it- , f tkey wcrc prevent others byi -• . j don’t pared to P ay % ts disclosed we can think upon the fact {o ttc be said to be ffi> tfcc time comes community, and which we -for cutting the class tten Still hold tbe=e p P t meet the. f °nnd more than w* - sorry io pubbe needs. I am which trouble you with so in . r °* ,oH " terest hut hav S P as you iEomplamed of, ana wws, -iUtheobiect with^^icb^tijg written, J Ol1 .-’ publication of Justice of allowing 1 , vnets i fairly «B statement of thefacta. I am, ote., H ; pjELD.' ’• jV’axkahae, November 20, 1919-