HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 December 1927, Page 9

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

BRITTS H A G RICULTUE E. SMALL AREA UNDER CULTIVATION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRi^HT. Received 1.5 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 20. In the. House of Commons, Mr Ormsb.v Gore, in answer to Mr Ramsay MacDonald, said that he had seen a report on the Anglo-lraq treaty, published at Cairo. He did not know where the information was obtained, but he wafi tabling the correct text. The- Cairo version was a free but accurate translation thereof.

Sir Archibald Sinclair, in submitting the Liberal Party’s motion deploring the Government’s • failure to- restore agriculture, expressed the opinion that Mr Bledisloe is suffering from that paralysing and insidious disease complacency. Britain had reached the smallest a rah© area in its agricultural history, with four hundred thousand fewer land workers than half a century ago. Temporary assistance here and there was useless; bold comprehensive measures are essential.—A.P.A. and “Sun.”