NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVIII, Issue LVIII, 3 December 1909, Page 7

NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS.

MR MASSEY AGAIN PROTESTS

WELLINGTON, December 2. There could be no greater land monopolists than the present Government, said Mr Massey to-night in referring to the nine million acres of "sham national endowments. Hardly a day passed, he said, without his receiving a protest from would-be settlers, m regard to the fact that these lands could not be taken up, except unfertile. renewable lease. He declared that these lands would never be taken up unless the optional tenure was granted, and when the Land Bill got into committee he would move a motion in that 'direction. Mr Witty: You won't carry it. Mr Massey : Perhaps not, but I will nut my view on record. I have no doubt that if the present Government continues in office until the next general election, they will introduce a Bill embodying whaft I am now advocating. ■