THE LAND BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8338, 22 January 1907, Page 6

THE LAND BILL.

STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER. (Post Correspondent). CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 21. Regarding the statement by the 'Post that the Government are leaving | the support of the Land Bill to Mr McNab, the premier says that a review of the circumstances will show that such an assumption is not borne out by facts. The House did not rise till the last day in October, and the opening of the Exhibition necessitated an immediate attendance of Ministers in Christchurch, and subsequently three or four Ministers had been laid aside through illness or illness in their families. This necessitated bis attendance in Wellington, and had prevented him personally going from end to end of the colony as he had intended when the House rose. Then there had been the Christmas holidays, when his colleagues naturally wished to visit their homes. The suggestion that any member of the Government had acted unfairly to the Minister of Lands was contrary to fact. By arrangement Mr McNab had been placing various points of the Land Bill before the country, and had been doing it very well. The other Ministers would between now and the meeting of Parliament do their part in putting before the country the policybf the Administration.