Post-War Land Speculation

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 13

Post-War Land Speculation

Sir,—l notice in your issue of March 31 a letter written by “Economist.” With many of his conclusions I agree, but near the end there is a reference to the postwar land speculation which suggests that your correspondent has not very closely followed events. He states that, as far as his memory serves him, not a single protest was made i,n the House againsi this speculation. If he refers to Hansard No. 184, page 1024, et. seq., ho will find that Sir Joseph Ward entered a most emphatic protest against the manner iu which money was being wasted. “Economist” states that Mr. Massey sml Mr. Seddon would not have permitted this state of affairs to continue. Whatever the great Liberal protagonist might have done unddr the circumstances, his tory records that Mr. Massey did permit this speculation to continue for several rears.—l am, etc., KEEN ON FACTS. Invercargill, April 9.

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