SUBDIVISION OF ESTATES
Sir, —After attending the sittings of Parliament for the past week, I can see no hope for the landless inan, Several Ministere spoke, but none of them voiced anything except criticism of the previous Goverrment. I except from this category Colonel. MacDonald, who proposed to drain the Wairarapa Lake, sometime this century. The fact is that the Ward Government, after seven months, has completed the purchase of an estate which was in process of being acquired by the previous Government The Ward Government has not bought an acre, nor will they, until they alter the instructions given to their field officers. While caution ,s quite commendable, so is vision, and the Departmental officers, acting under instructions, turn down offers of properties at prices which the public will accept. Upwards of a third of the Ward Government’s life is past, and it is about time the Ward Cabinet issued such instructions as will make action by their field officers pos-aible-I am, etc., h main . Napier, July 15.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 254, 23 July 1929, Page 13
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169SUBDIVISION OF ESTATES Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 254, 23 July 1929, Page 13
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