HOMES FOR WORKERS.
STATE LENDING POLICY. CRITICISM BY FARMERS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] HAMILTON, Tuesday. A remit expressing alarm at the proportion of State advances made on nonproductive security caused a lerigthy discussion at the Auckland provincial conference of the New Zealand Farmers* Union to-day. Mr. R. H. Fiesst, Cambridge, said tha Government's action in lending money to workers with a § per cent, margin of security was responsible for many of the economic evils from which the country was suffering to-day. It encouraged the drift to the towns and made the lot of the worker and the farmer harder. Mr. W. Lee Martin, M.P., while supporting the remit, said the late Prime Minister, Mr. Massey, was justified in the action he took in order to find homes for returned soldiers. The State Advances Office had not lost 5 per cent, on the money it had advanced for workers' homes. He was optimistic enough to think that nothing more would be lost. The remit was passed without dissent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19953, 23 May 1928, Page 13
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