HOLDINGS IN TARANAKI

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1929, Page 13

HOLDINGS IN TARANAKI

LAND AGGREGATION DENIED. DISCUSSION IN PARLIAMENT. (By Wire—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. A denial that land aggregation was going on to any great extent in Taranaki was given by Mr. H. G. Dickie in the House of Representatives to-day. It had been said, he remarked, that aggregation had been going on in Taranaki. That province, however, was the closest settled land in the Dominion. If there had been aggregation there were only one or two instances in the northern part, and it would be found that the aggregation consisted of cases where a father had bought for his son. Mr. C. A. Wilkinson: “No.” Mr. Dickie: "The transactions I have in mind are of that nature.” The speaker criticised certain remarks made by Mr. J. W. Polson, member for Stratford, about the wheat and flour duties. Mr. Polson did not -seem to know where he -stood. For a president of the Farmers’ Union he was a fine example of a man sitting on the fence. The member for the Bay of Islands (Captain Rushworth) had quoted Moses in his speech, but the speaker intended to remind Mr. Polson of the words of a popular song, "There Aint No Sense Sitting on the Fence, All By Yourself in the Moonlight.” Mr. Polson: "You will know where I am directly.” Mr. Kyle: “He is in the moonshine.”