THE LAND BILL

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8798, 27 April 1907, Page 2

THE LAND BILL

Press Association. Qobe, April 25. Last night, which was boisterous and wet, Mr T. McKenzie, M.H.B. for Waikoaaiti, addressed 800 people at Wyndham on the Land Bill. The meeting was held under the auspices of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Mr H. J. Middleton, vice-president of the Southland Executive, was in the chair. Mr McKenzie criticised the Bill exhaustively, and traced the land tenure of various nations from ancient times to the present a ff e. He deduced from these facts that those countries which divided land into small freeholds had been and were moat prosperous, contented, and happy. He denounced either State or individual landlordism. The speaker had an attentive hearing, and at the close a motion was carried that Mr McKenzie be thanked for his able and instructive address, and that the meeting affirms that any Bill devoted to the subdivision of land, which does not contain the option of the freehold, is not in the interests of the State as a whole. The motion was carried by acclamation. 1 Inveecabgilx., April 26. Mr T, McKenzie, M.H.R., addressed a meeting to-night at Otautau at the invitation of the Farmers’ Union. He made a strong advocacy of the freehold and at the conclusion the meeting passed a resolution affirming the freehold principle, a somewhat ambiguous amendment being lost,