FAIR RENTS ACT
Sir, —May I congratulate Mr. H. Tiarks upon his summing-up of the attitude adopted by the Labour Government in connection with the so-called Fair Rents Act. If the Government is bo tender-hearted toward the tenant, and so antagonistic toward the owners of house property, is it not time the landlords requested the Government to take over all house property and compensate the owners? Audhf.y McDonald. Si r> —A Socialistic Government's objective is to kill individual effort and to steps to make private ownership of landed property so unprofitable that landlords'will be compelled to sell to the State. What more ideal act; than this can be imagined to bring about desired resvdts? Give the present Government their duo, they are consistent, and are steadily taking effective steps to kill capitalism and _all that it means to the Dominion. *VY itli this in mind, we can readily understand why such legislation is being progressively introduced. If Labour is returned we can safely look for the introduction of further drastic laws to throttle freedom as effectively as is done in Germany or Italy to-day. Demos.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22900, 1 December 1937, Page 17
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