NO LAND COMMANDEER
MINISTER REFUTES “ MALICIOUS PROPAGANDA " (£eb United Press association.) HASTINGS. June 20. The Minister of Lands (Hon, F. Langstone) addressed a crowded meeting at Hastings to-night, and was given an enthusiastic reception. Ibe pnncipal points in the Minister s speech were denials of the rumours which he said were being circulated that it the Labour Party were returned at the General Election it would attempt to take the land from the farmers and introduce legislation making the inheritance of property impossible. These rumours were called a “ malicious form of propaganda ’’ by the Minister, who also strongly attacked the compensated price policy of the National Party. Mr Langstone was accorded a vote of thanks, and a vote of confidence in Mr K. L. Cullen as the member for the electorate was also passed.
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Evening Star, Issue 22989, 21 June 1938, Page 3
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134NO LAND COMMANDEER Evening Star, Issue 22989, 21 June 1938, Page 3
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