"WILFORD SETTLEMENT."

Northern Advocate, 23 July 1923, Page 4

"WILFORD SETTLEMENT."

(To the Editor.)

Sir, I notice in your paper of the 13th July in dealing with a statement made by the Minister of Agriculture you use these words::—"He challenged tho achievements of the Liberal Party in regard- to the •settlement of the people and cited the Hall-Jones' settlement . . . concluding with "Mr Wilford's settlement." This article of yours conveys the implication that, the Wilfurd Settlement \v;is in some way or other my personal property or

the property of someone of my The facts are as follows: —Mr Seddon, some time after lit; had purchased the block of land for workmen's hojnes in Petone from theMudgwav estate, decided to i t ame th? block the "Wilford Settlement' ! in compliment to the member coy the district. The property was never mine; I never had any interest in it, nor had any of joy. relations, .and .1 at}l<; you. therefore, to insert this., letter..,in your paper, giving it as 'much prominence a? yoii have : given the statement to whitfh I take exception.—l am, etc.,, ;

THOMAS M, WILFORD Wellington, July 38, 1023.