“IN A GLASS HOUSE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 287, 24 February 1928, Page 8

“IN A GLASS HOUSE”

MINISTER HITS OUT MR. RANSOM AND HIS LAND Press Association. TE AWAMUTU, Thursday; An invitation to Mr. E. A. Ransom, M.P. for Pahiatua, to allow the publication of the price at which he offered his property for soldiers’ settlement, and the Government valuation thereon, v/as made by the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Lands, in his address this evening. \fR. RANSOM has been Lalkirg of land aggregation, and criticising the Government for purchasing land for soldier settlement above the valuation. If Mr. Ransom had wished to be perfectly frank, said the Minister, he would have admitted hr was tha owner of an aggregated holding and that of 25,000 owners of flocks he was one of 500 odd who owned 6,000 sheep or over. “If the subdivision of aggregated sheep runs is a virtue, I know of no one in a better position to prove it than

the member of Pahiatua with his oy® property,” said Mr. McLeod. “I have no intention of using departmental files against any man vntnoui his consent, tut if Mr. Ransom asse me to do so' 1 shall publish the P*he asked the Government for a erty of his own for soldier settle ™ purposes and also the valuation of the property at the , _ the offer was made. If those in f houses start throwing stones - apt to get splinters of glass under own skins.”