LABOUR’S LAND POLICY

Grey River Argus, 1 July 1925, Page 2

LABOUR’S LAND POLICY

i THE RIGHT OF INHERITANCE. ! > HTATEMEN'T BY .Ml; HOLLAND. WELLINGTON, June 28 i Spunking to a “New Zealand • Tinies’’ representative. Mr H. K Holland, M.P., lender of the Labour Party, snid:— ! In n “Tinies’’ leading article this I morning refertniuc is made to a letter i signed “New z-caland Welfare I League, ’’ and it is suggested that I should endeavour to explain away the case therein stated against the Labour Party's land policy. As a .ulo, I do not take any notice of anonymous attacks, but since this matter • may be c:qiable of being unscrupulouslv' used, I purpose disposing of it at once. 1 notice that the gentleman who signs himself “ New'Zealand Welfare League,” after having (pi)ted an alleged statement by Mr (’. AL Moss, of Dunedin, proceeds to cont-unl, inter alia, that “those who own any land in the city. . . . will not ever be 'allowed to transfer it by will, as there 'must be no transference except t » the • State.” ..t this is wholly contrary Ito fact “ Xew Zealand Welfare League” must know. If he doe:! not know, he is deplorably lacking in in- ' formation; it he does know, In* is I amazinglv gifted with mendaciousi ess iAt every meeting addressed by me ’t It roughout New Zealand on the land (piestion, I have stated and res t ied • that the policy of <’“• T oo’ir I::i ty will not prevent a landholder from willing his interest in the land to his wife ami family; and the report of the ’- .I annual conference o( the I : i on' Partv aflecting the land question i (printed in “ Xew Zealand Mmes” ‘and other papers) contained the emiphatic statement that the Labour [Party’s proposals “do not in any way • interfere with the rights of inherita nee. ’ ’