POLITICAL NOTES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES

Mr Pearce, speaking in the House on Friday, said that the suspension of the repayment of mortgages was sending up the price of land, since money that should have been used to pay oft mortgages was used to buy land already bearing mortgages. The great increase in the price of land was a very serious evil. A Bill has been introduced to Parliament for the purpose of removing the prohibition of a Wellington-Hutt tramway line, now enforced in the interests of the railway.',. ■ ■'. . The Chronicle says that Mr Massey will.speak: at Wanganui shortly. ,■. Mr Wilkinson, the Eltham /Argus says, is settled oh his determination to retire from politics, and the name of Mr Maxwell is being mentioned m connection with Egmont seat.