MR MASSEY AT PUHOI.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10765, 13 May 1911, Page 2

MR MASSEY AT PUHOI.

DISCOVERS THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS WRONG. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, May 11. Mr Massey was entertained' at a banquet at Puhoi last night. Replying to the Hon. Mr Millar's speech at Dunediu, Mr Massey said that the actingMinister of Finance, had explained that some.millions of acres, of native lands were lying idle because the native minister did not want to impoverish his people. No one wanted to demoralise the native people, but the man who has done more in that direction than any other man was the acting-Prime Minister. If Air Carroll desired to stand between the desire for settlement and the settlement of the Maori lands, he ventured to say that Air Carroll should be told to get out of the way, and the sooner be does so the better for all concerned. Air Massey said that a serious injustice had been done to the Auckland provincial district by locking up 900,000 acres in the province _as a national endowment, while it was degenerating into a hotbed for noxious weeds and hundreds of people were landless. The Hon. Air Millar, at Dunedin, made much of the fact that the revenue had~'increased by oyer a mil-

lion pounds. The increase in revenue was the result of legislation which provided for increased' taxation of the great bulk of the people.' Air Alillar did not give the increase in the country's indebtedness during the financial year. It was between six and seven millions.