The Pahiatua Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING MONDAY, JULY 16, 1928. A PIGMY THUNDERBOLT.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10888, 16 July 1928, Page 4

The Pahiatua Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING MONDAY, JULY 16, 1928. A PIGMY THUNDERBOLT.

The Wanganui, Chronicle says:— “Among the latest to launch a, pigmy thunderbolt at the Government is Mr E. A. Ransom, the Member for Pahiat.ua, wli'o expresses It is opinion that one of the principal causes of unemployment is the failure of the administration to adopt a satisfactory land settlement policy. The Government, apparently is blind. It cannot see what Mr Ransom sees—‘that if the intensive methods of Denmark were applied to this country there is no reason why New Zealand should not immensely increase production.’ To become a seconck Denmark is so easy, of course, that if Mr Ransom’s party were placed in power, it would accomplish the desirable transformation ir. the twinkling of an eye. Mr Ransom is intensely earnest for the good of his country. He offered the Minister of Lands his property at Akitio for ten per cent, less than it cost him. Admirable ah negation !• Yet there are numerous land owners even more self-sacrificing, who would let the Government have their land for twenty per cent, less than they gave for it. or even loss—and he extremely glad to be rid of it. It is very easy to talk of intensive fanning—the ideal ‘one-man farm’—hut by no means so simple to produce the farms. If a Minister of Lands wore a prestidigitator, with liis sleeves full of rich acres, he would doubtless produce them with great satisfaction to a joyously astonished multitude, and bid each take a few. As it is, he is a practical man, and knows that land is land and*money is money.”