LABOUR'S LAND POLICY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1925, Page 9

LABOUR'S LAND POLICY.

MANUKAU MEMBER'S SUPPORT. Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P., outlined several important features of the Labour party's platform at Kohimarama last night. The various banks, said Mr. Jordan, showed a bigger profit than ever before, and this was attributed to tb« reduction of taxes, thus benefitting overseas investors, who received 13, 14 and 15 per cent, when 10 per cent would be ample repayments for their investments. In view of this it was not fair to reduce wages in this country.

While £20,000 was allowed in the estimates for the entertainment of the American Fleet, and £11,000 for the Special Service Squadron, no assistance was given to our own people who required it.

"We want immigrants in this country," said Mr. Jordan, "but we should have somewhere to put them." He quoted the case of a man with a large family, -who came to New Zealand under the impression that he was getting work as a miner. The fulfilment of these hopes, however, was not forthcoming, and, consequently, the man had been in irregular employment as a gardener since his arrival. As a result of this state of affairs every local body in New eZaland was finding that the hospital and charitable aid board's tax was each year becoming a heavier charge." Mr. Jordan said he stood heartily by the Labour party's land policy. Where there was an estate in excess of £20,000 the Government should have a right under an act to compulsofily acquire such excess.

At the conclusion of his address, Mr. Jordan was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence.