"MR. THEODORE'S TASK"

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 7, 9 January 1924, Page 3

"MR. THEODORE'S TASK"

A correspondent, "J.H.," St. Albam, Christchurch, writes, with1 reference to a sub-editorial of sth January, "Mr Theodore's Task." He the following passage, "and then to convince the British investor, through- fihoSe 'Who represent him in the 'City of" London, that the Queensland Land Act," Amendment Act, 1920, is not what if Km been, and still is, represented to be, viz., confiscatory in character.-"-'- •"'"'The plain, unassailable fact," writes. "J.H. " is that the Queensland Labour. .Government has neversrepudiated, one lease, nor even the smallest portion of any lease or any contract regarding, the .pastoral lands of the State. All that was done was to insist that squatters- should: return to. the terms upon- •, which they originally took up the "country they now hold, and cease robbing the people "of Queensland under cover of a 'special favour granted them many years ago, under very special circumstances," -a» a measure of temporary relief, and never in their leases at all.' .FurthernVpfc, We Queensland Government v hag nothmir whatever to do with fixing," the rente for these holding*; thia latter.onlY-Hee within the ambit of the .EedefallSoVern, merit. ■ . - ■ •»: . .: ■. «