THE LABOUR PARTY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19406, 16 February 1925, Page 8

THE LABOUR PARTY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Despite your sub-leader in this morning’s Daily Times, it is a fact that the Labour Party is making progress, and will continue to do so. You possibly ask why I am sure such progress is being made, and to such a question I reply that the economic pressure through the banks and otherwise on working farmers, working business people, and workers generally in industry will compel the great bulk of those who do the useful work connected with production and distribution to question the wisdom of voting for the two big parties known in New Zealand as the Reform and Liberal parties respectively. A great many deplore immigration, but, personally, I would have no objection to immigration, provided the Labour Party was in office to put through legislation to break up the large ©states. Under the Ward and Massey parties land aggregation has gone on apace, as anyone who has travelled New Zealand, and particularly the North Island, during the past ten years and more knows only too well. With New Zealand broken np into small farms the same as prevails in Northern Europe (France, Denmark, etc.), our country would flourish, and we could support a population of ten millions in more comfort than we to-day support one and a-quarter million people. The Reform and Liberal parties will not impose heavy enough taxation on land and large incomes. The Labour Party is the only party that is pledged to do this.—l am etc. 1 G. S. Thom sox. Opoho, January 14, 1925.