The Land Bill.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43072, 23 March 1907, Page 2

The Land Bill.

ACTING-PREMIER’S REPLY TO MR RUTHERFORD. (By Telegraph-—Press Association.). CHEVIOT, This Day. Speaking at a social the ActingPremier referred to Mr Rutherford's attack on the Land Bill, and quoted the late Mr Rolleston as proposing that no Grown lands should be sold. He said he could name members of tbe Opposition who had supported that proposal, but who now opposed the endowment clauses of the present Land Bill. The opening of thousands of acres of Maori land for settlement as the result of the present commission would give the colony a great move forward, as would be seen within the next few months. Alluding to the recent slaughtermen’s strike, the Acting Premier denied that the Arbitration Act had broken down. The strikers vyere being punished like those who broke other laws. He wished they had taken their grievances to Court, instead of ceasing work, and thought if they had done so they would have obtained terms just as good as they had now*, secured, and -without incurring a loss of wages and beicg fined: