LAND POLICY
LABOUR PARTY
NO SOCIALISATION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH,' October 4,
A denial that the Labour Party intended to socialise land was repeated by the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin), in an address in Inglewood tonight. There were few interruptions and no questions were asked. A vote of confidence in the Government and in the Prime Minister was carried.
The Party, said the Minister, was trying to secure votes by reviving the bogy of Socialism. "They say we are going to socialise land and everything else," said Mr. Martin. "What a lot of humbug. During the last two years we gave over 742 freehold titles. Does that seem like the action of a Government out to socialise land?"
It was absolute rot. for there had never been a single suggestion that the Government would socialise land or anything else.
"I am *a farmer," he continued. "Would I not be a fool if I supported a scheme to take land away from me? What would any Government do with the land if they had it? Who is going to work land? Is it not far better for the farmers to run their own farms?"
The speaker maintained that Mr. C. A. Wilkinson was the only man in New Zealand who had put forward a proposal to socialise land. Few Governments had done so much for the farmer as the Labour Government.
LAND POLICY
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 23
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