THE GOVERNMENT’S LAST STRAW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 96, 6 December 1911, Page 6

THE GOVERNMENT’S LAST STRAW.

(To the Editor “Stratford Post.”) Sir, —It is consistent with the methods of defence adopted by the Government Party that when any point has been proved against them, some side issue is imported into tiio discussion in order to cloak the issue raised. 1 notice with amusement that this method lias been imported into the last dying defence of the Government over the Mokau blunder. Some of Mr McNab’s wealthy shareholder friends in the Mokau Company have just written a letter to the former whitewashing Mr McNah, who together with the Premier have now used it in their defence, as a final dying kick to cloud the issue. What the Reform Party contend is that the Government committed a shocking breach of principle in allowing one man to acquire 53,000 acres in one deal through an Ordor-in-Council” sanctioned and approved by the Governor, who profess to curtail trafficking in lands by any individuals. Mr McNah is inconsistent in this action, but no one accuses him or Ids fellow-shareholders who state they are Oppositionists of being dishonest. The stand taken by the “Reform Party” over this wretched blunder is to safeguard jibe poor settler against being exploited hv the wealthy.-—I am, etc., F. J. JtACKSON * 1 Stratford, December Cth.