THE FREEHOLD CRY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10505, 13 July 1910, Page 6

THE FREEHOLD CRY.

(Per Phess Association.) Wellington, July 12. The Farmers' Union Conference passed a resolution reiterating its demand that the Land Act be so amended that planks 3 and 8 of their platform fdealing with the right to acquire the freehold) shall be acted upon, and that no legislation would be satisfactory to the Union that did not embody these provisions." The Farmers' Union Conference passed resolutions that State tenants should' have the right of acquiring the freehold; that the Government be urged to spend £IOO,OOO annually on reafforestation, the money to be spent either by the Lands Department or in encouraging private individuals to plant suitable trees; that Maori lands should pay the same rates and taxes as European land. "