SOCIALIST PARTY’S POLICY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19529, 11 July 1925, Page 9

SOCIALIST PARTY’S POLICY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In the New Zealand Labour Party’s platform it is plainly stated that “privatelyowned land shall not be sold or transferred except to the State ’’ Mr H. E. Holland hag stated publicly that this does not interfere with the rights of inheritance. Now Mr C. M. Moss, one of the party’e candidates in Dunedin, writing in the Otago Daily Times of July 1, contradicts Mr Holland and says, “Mr Holland mis-states the position when lie says the proposals do not in any way interfere with the rights of inheritance." It is a case, then, of "There we are, but where are we?" Who is right and who is wrong? What a muddled platform it is when the members of the party are in conflict as to what it means! If a man oould not transfer Ids section of land except to the State and that,is what the platform says, then clearly such’ would be an interference with the right of inheritance. A man cannot inherit what is not transferred to him. Mr Hollands says, however, that such a proposal does not interfere with the right of inheritance, and Mr Moss says it does. Where does the party stand? It wants the country to adopt a proposal about which is own members are divided as to what it means. City electors should remember that the proposal apples to city land as well as to country, and be on their guard with reference to such wild cat proposals which the party's own members are in doubt about. The working men and women who own a section of land want the right to be able to sell or transfer it, if necessary. It is time they woke un to the fact that this so-called Labour Party proposes to take that right away from -them. The party’s land policy is a hoax, and the .workers who think should oppose ’the application of such mad socialist theories to their affairs. If they do not they will be the sufferers, not the Socialist politcians. —Wo are, etc., N.Z. Welt?are League.