WHAT LIBERALS PROMISE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 21

WHAT LIBERALS PROMISE.

.MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S PLANS. Tiie first, oi ilio political party pronouncements of policy in preparation for the British General Election was made in London recently, when Mr. Lloyd George gave pledges on behalf of the Liberal 2'artv. " The revival of tho countryside is irital," ho said. " You must have better marketing arrangements. Vou must have schemes for drainage that will save one million and half acres of water-logged land, which is now out of cultivation; you must have rural industries that will enable Ihe women and children to supplement the family income; and there is the problem oj bringing electricity to the countryside." " Above nil, you must give security to ? the cultivator, so that he knows that, whatever happens to the owner of _ the )and, the fruit of his toil, his capital, 3iis skill, his thought, and his care will belong to him and to no other. You mustgive the aorkn a prospect that he will Jnmself have a fair ciiance of being a cultivator of part of the soil of his own (country,*;