LAND SETTLEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 263, 6 November 1928, Page 8

LAND SETTLEMENT.

MR. MASON AT AVONDALE.

Mr. H. G. R. Mason, Labour candidate for the Auckland Suburbs, addressed the electors in the Avondale Town Hall last evening, Mrs. J. Lee presiding. There was a fair attendance. The candidate received a good hearing, and at the conclusion of his address was accorded a vote of thanks and renewed confidence.

Mr. Mason said the Labour party believed in a strong land policy and closer settlement of the good lands of the Dominion. That was better than spending large sums in futile development of puniico and other poor lands. Money should be lent for farm improvements at a low rate of interest. Pensions should be liberalised and anomalies abolished. A satisfactory scheme should be inaugurated whereby workers would receive compensation when illness affected their occupation. Unemployment insurance should be introduced. He criticised the Government's action of flooding the country with immigrants when they could not be absorbed. In his opinion the United party was a branch of Reform. The Liberals had helped to keep Mr. Massey ii» power. In regard to transport, he pointed out that the question was now out of the hands of Parliament, and was the concern of the Transport Board.