CLOSER SETTLEMENT.
UNITED PARTY'S AIM. MR. ALLEN AT KELSTOX. Stressing the necessity for placing eettlers on virgin country, assisted with adequate finance. Mr. E. R. Allen, United candidate for Auckland Suburbs, explained the party's land policy to a meeting of about 200 electors* in the Baptist Church, Kclston. last night. H:» criticised tho Oovernnienfs scheme of cutting up estates already under production, which was not increasing the productivity of the Dominion. The great need was to bring more land under cultivation, and to increase the number of settlers.
Mr. Allen took the Government (o task for its unbusinesslike methods in handling the public fund*, reminding the audience that the lartre sum of £11,000,000 had been spent"by State Departments without the authority of Parliament. Most of the business of the country was done by Order-in-Couneil, which was a hole-and-corner method. Under the administration of the United party, should Sir Joseph Ward be returned to power, that would be swept away, and the business of the counmwould be conducted on the good old Liberal lines. (Loud applause.) A vote of thanks and confidence, moved by Mr. Hurst and seconded by Mr. Southgate, was declared by the chairman. Mr. Dennis, to be carried unanimously.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 259, 1 November 1928, Page 11
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