AGGREGATION ALLEGATIONS.

NZ Truth, Issue 406, 5 April 1913, Page 4

AGGREGATION ALLEGATIONS.

A Country Paper's Battle. The "Mangaweka Settler" has rendered a very useful service to tho Dominion by exposing tho system of land aggregation which for some tlmo past has been going on In the Oroua electorate Being on tho spot, right In the thick of It, In fact, this llttlo country newspaper, by hitting out, has got tho Fat Journals of New Zealand on to it. and the result is that the "Settler" has become famous. The district Is represented by Mr. Guthrle. a "Reformer," and, as tho allegations affected him. It was natural that he should get busy and tell the Government's bugle-blower, the ■Dominion," that the "Settler" was very, very wrong, and m Us turn tho "Dominion/ 1 ap«lng the fine old crusty Conservative style of Ho!d Hlngland. endeavored to bully and belittle tho country paper. The result Is that the "Dominion" has fallen m. I'ar better had It remained "eoptempcuoualy silent." becnusft, the 1 more that is known, the worse it Is becoming for Reform, m a recent Issuo tho "Settler" had this to say of the member of the district: When Mr (Juthrlc makes the astounding statement "that he la not aware of any ngKrepatlon having taken pia-je In his own electorate since the present Government cam* Into office." then lie must be lamentubiy ignorant /.if whel In being done In his electorate. . . . It la all notjsenae for Mr. Ouihrla t.) state we are engineering this matter for political purtxweii. Mr, Quthrlv iIM a bit of aggregating himself when ho resided up this way. and ho must surely remember how we slated him on tli's very subject. • • ♦ Of course, the "Settlor" has to fight for | tfii existence. If it dw>«n't, there Is a chance of Manga wcka h«lng wiped off iho map. and tlie "Settler" will cease from oxposlnut "Reform's" lltUe ways. If nolit'leal capital i» beinjj made. Is llobt. K. Hornblow. the proprietor and editor, to be blamed? Ho wa« the un»ucce«sful Liberal randldate ajcalnst iho rich man's candidate. a»d I" 'h* circumstances he did wo"- A * th * record* o.' aggregation will be interesting in'si oicrtlon. tho chane*"* nr<! tMal Hornbtoiv will Improve hlji poKftk»n. What ftrikes "Truth" ns curious Just now m the fact that "He.form" hnx nAI K° { * vpn pn th ' s fearless Uttle newspaper. A Oovernmtnt enn •Meal it o» 1 "* ln **arlot»ji ways, ani it v, m he aurprUlng If In lh<r near future proprietor and editor Horn Wow la not showing » "crook" deal from the political pack-