LAND BOARD ELECTION.

Southland Times, Issue 18846, 11 June 1920, Page 2

LAND BOARD ELECTION.

To the Editor. Dear Sir, —In your issue of June 7 you published a letter from Mr J. Carnegie Gardner with reference to Mr Hargest’s candidature for election to the Land Board Mr Gardner says: ‘‘No doubt Mr Hargest is a very suitable man, and it is very desirable that the returned soldiers should be represented on the Board.” But he goes on to say that the returned soldiers’ representative on the Board should be appointed by the Government as a matter of right. Surely Mr Gardner is aware that returned soldiers throughout the Dominion have for a long time past contended that the Government should give them direct representation on the Land Boards, and that they have used the press and the public platforms to urge Mr Gardner and other public men to assist them to secure this right. Public support., however, has been feeble and the Government has persistently refused the request, in the face of this refusal on the part of the Government, it would appear that Mr Gardner’s conviction that “Mr Hargest is a ven' suitable man,” and “that it is very desirable that returned soldiers should be represented on the Land Board” is the best possible argument why Crown tenants of Southland should vote for Mr Hargest.—We are. etc., U. M. RAE, President, L. S. GRAHAM, Secretary, Invercargill Returned Soldiers’ Association.