APPRECIATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6964, 2 November 1909, Page 7

APPRECIATION.

(To the Editor N.Z. Times.") Sir,—The "New Zealand Times'' in opening its columns for the free discussion of social problems and all matters pertaining to the enlightennient and uplifting of the masses is doing an educational work, the magnitude of which is only beginning to be felt and appreciated, while its exposure and denunciation’ of the despicable tactics resorted to by the mul-eistic mob to prevent the working class from becoming Crown tenants makes it worthy of the popularity to which it attained and the name by which it is known, at least up this ■way —i.e., the people's newspaper. Sir, this frenzied haste to snap iip all the remaining Crown. and native lands by the opposition to general prosperity is onlv a frantic elfort on the part of friends of the land speculator and the moneylender to block the bona fide settler from getting on the Land except as a tenant under individual landlordism, or as the land slave of a mortgagee. ... , , yjr the ormosition to general prosperity—l always like to give things their proper names —has been throwing 4 olt about the want of clean administrationNow, Sir, I want to say right here that New Zealand has much to. bo proud of, but if there is one thing more than another of which the Dominion can proudlv boast, it is her eighteen years of practically clean administration of public afiairs by tho people’s Government; hence lor phenomenal progress' and prosperity during that period.—l am, etc., "APPRECIATION.” Mataroa, October 23rd.