AS "EFFECTIVE" AS ANTISHOUTING LAW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15089, 11 December 1919, Page 8

AS "EFFECTIVE" AS ANTISHOUTING LAW.

Referring to the recent address by ; Mr E. Newman, M.P., the Manawatu ■( Herald remarks that except for a refpvcn'co to the proposed acquisition of the Urewera- Country for settlement purm, poses, it contained nothing original. "Mr Newman (adds the Herald) suggestin ed the acquisition of about 70,000 acres I of the Uiewera native-held country for settlement purposes by soldiers, the same to be made accessible (by light railways. If such a, proposition does come to pass, we hope the fee simple of the land will not pnss fiorn the State, and that the land will not bo cursed by the hungry speculator and aggregator. There are people who would" acclaim Mr Newmans proposal for the reason that- it would divert attention from the : r nefarious practices m land jobbing. Mr X^wmnn. agrees that . aggregation a#d dummyjsm exists m the more settled parts of thtf Dominion, and s, of opinion that the recent 'drastV letrMatioM of J(is<t session wfjl s.tqp it. hi our opiinon it v>-*)l be as effective' a^ the anti r f=hput,{n? low. jnpre honoured m the breach than the observance. It Mould be better for Mr Newman and other politicians to perfect th a prp-ent land laws before atIcmpt'n'g settlpmcofi m the Urewera. ' ? "W'-'ve being doing so much, I ttynk we should change our name to thp Performers, instwd of Reformers," Pr. A. K. Newman, at Wellington. ■Mr D. O. O'Brien, who is opposing Mr Holland m Buller, became a miner at the age of seventeen years, and has been m the industry for about thirty !yeara. He took an active part m the formation of tho first miners' union at Millerton, and became its president. T*9tor he va>? secretary for several years. Jfo y/aj chairman of tho Buller County Council when war was declared. He went to the front v-!j.h the first body of tnnnellers,, won a comniission m France, and afterwards saw service m Palestine. On his return to New Zealand h« r/ymmed work as an underviewor An the Mflterton vnisg,