GOVERNMENT AND FARMERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27211, 14 October 1949, Page 8

GOVERNMENT AND FARMERS

Sir, —“ Matilda ” says there were very few men that walked off their farms after the First World War. That statement is just in line with everything she writes. That has been the National Party’s sorest point during this last two sessions of Parliament, the pegging of land values at the 1942 value. It is exactly what is going to save this country from another disaster. It was common for one farm to change hands three times in a month, and up to 26 mortgages on the one property. This Government believes in going down to rock for foundations instead of building on drifting sand. After all, land is only worth what it will produce on an average over 30 or 40 years. The National Party have proved themselves quite irresponsible under their present leader. They tried to score on the way the Holmes case was.handled, yet if they had been the Government they would have had to do the very same thing or stand by and see the whole of the public service wrecked by those evil and wicked Communists. It is well known that the deadliest enemy of the Communist Party is happy and contented people. They have no chance under these conditions. Yet the Opposition is trying all the time to make the people dissatisfied with their lot.—l am, etc., Karitane. O. Johnston.