ENGLISH LAND POLICY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 29

ENGLISH LAND POLICY

> A DIFFICULT TASK | Previous to being raised to the ! | peerage recently, Mr. Noel Buxton, ! j British .Minister of Agriculture, had j i been given the task of drawing up an I j agricultural policy for the Govern- j j ment, which was to be published in the j j form of a White Paper. j j Although the Government'had been j | in office for practically eleven months, j jit had hitherto been unable, though I i repeatedly questioned in Parliament, j j to state its intentions regarding the ! | land, said the ‘-.Daily Telegraph” re- | cently. I Owing to a conflict of opinion in the | Government, it was expected that Mr. i Buxton would flud it impossible to j produce a policy of any value. | The Minister himself favoured a i j proposal to compel the use of a perI p en tage of English wheat in all millI ing operations in this country. This | would have the effect of giving the ! British farmer a guaranteed market. : But, ou free trade grounds, opposition i was expected from certain Ministers Another suggestion that has been i considered is the establishment of a j ! Wheat Import Board, but this also has ‘ [ been strongly objected to and may be ! j ruled out. | | It was known that Mr. Buxton : v isned to introduce a compulsory : marketing scheme. The National L a t n erS ( U , nion - however, has been : hostile to the proposal, and without its co-operatin it would be useless to i attempt to operate it. “Every suggestion to be of anv prac,to agriculture must neces°anly involve an increase in the re■“Ttoiivo w 1? farmer -” remarked the Daily Telegraph.' “An artificial: laismg 01 prices would not be anan?i Ve b o a ma i° rlt -y of the Cabinet. ■ and Mr. Buxion s position, therefore' is one that no other Minister wiii