LAND SETTLEMENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 10

LAND SETTLEMENT

MR. BROADFOOT OPENS CAMPAIGN (From Our Own Correspondent.) OTOROHANGA, Friday. Mr. W. J. Broadfoot, Mayor of Tc Kuiti, and the United Party’s candidate for the Waitomo Electorate, delivered his first political address during the progress of the present campaign, in Otorohanga to-night. Mr. F. O. R. Phillips, chairman of the Town Board, presided over a large attendance in the Town Hall. Mr. Broadfoot explained that the principal aim of the United Party was to create opportunities for those already on the land to increase their earnings, and to settle others in the vacant spaces. Until the thousands of acres of idle non-productive land within easy reach of a town or a railway were settled, he could see no wisdom in spending money on schemes such as the Rotorua- Taupo line, with the problematical hope that settlers would be induced to go on to the pumice lands. Mr. Broadfoot dealt most efficiently with the sheaf of questions which was handed up for him to answer, and was able to turn many of them to his advantage to emphasise some particular point he had made in his previous address. A vote of thanks to and confidence in the candidate was carried by acclamation.