IF I WERE A BOY.
THE CITY, NOT THE LAND.
MINISTERS SOLILOQUY.
WELLINGTON, Aug. 28. "Tf people consult me privately about going on the land I advise them m nine cases out of ten not to do so under existing conditions,” said the new Minister of Lands (Hon. A. D. McLeod) in Parliament last night, in answer to Labour critics of the Government’s land policy. ‘ ‘ Although I am from the land, born and bred on it, I would go to the town myself if I wore a boy again, because of the conditions, facilities and hours of work in the towns, where the worker can drive the master into the position of being compelled to give conditions that are vastly better than those of the man out back, whoso master is not in A.ew Zealand, but in England, dictating the price the farmer is to get for his produce and the hours he is to work. Their life is so hard that the young mail of to-day who has had some education looks at the land and then turns a wav. ’ ’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 August 1924, Page 5
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