LABOUR S LAND POLICY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 September 1927, Page 5

LABOUR S LAND POLICY.

ME HOLLAND SPEAKS IN EAGLAN ELECTOEATE. (Bv Telegraph —Press Association ) HAMILTON, This Day. “The Reform Government is on trial in this contest.” said Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, sjjeaking at Ngaruawahia last evening on behalf of the Labour candidate, Mr W. Lee Martin, to an attendance of 600. The fight was not a question of the Labour Party versus the Reform Party, said Mr Holland. The issue.was the Government’s position, and the Reform Party was invited to defend its administration. He challenged the Government on its failure to keep the promises made during the 1025 election campaign. The Government had not kept its promises to relievo the position of the farmers, stated Mr Holland, ‘who attacked the Government’s land policy and its alleged failure to check land aggregation. The speaker, continuing, said that Mr Coates had stated that the Labour Party had thrown aside its land policy, but the Labour Party still adhered to its j>olicy of occupation and use. If a landholder wanted to gamble with his land, the Labour Party.had nothing to offer him. If a landholder wanted to hold land for the purpose of using it, the Labour Party would have everything to offer him. The Labour Party would stop aggregation by applying a steeply-gjraded lanjd tax against big estates'or by acquisition by purchase. If negotiations for voluntary sale, and purchase failed, compulsion would be applied.

A vote of no-confidence in the He form Government was carried by accla mation.