POLITICAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14210, 26 May 1910, Page 5

POLITICAL.

MR BUXTON AT FAIRLIE. Taking advantage of a little opportunity which presented itself at fairhe yesterday, when he waa opening the Eairlio Poultry Show, Mr Buxton, M.P., had a word to say against a class of peoplo whom ho termed "croakers" those who were continually decrying New Zealand, and threatening to sell out and go away to soma other country, lie did not like to hear such peoplo talking, ho said, for, lie thought it showed a lack of loyalty to one's country—a lack which was' tho more deplorable when it was considered what a line country New. Zealand really is. There was something to laugh at, as well as to regret, in such talk, for it made one wonder where tho croakers would go if they uid leave New Zealand. Where would they imd a better country? They could not do so. Mr Lloyd George bad prepared a Budget which would effectually scare them off the Home iMtta, and certainly conditions in Australia, were no butter than they were Here He- thought it only fitting that people who had dono well in this country should stand up for, and not deC! J ,' r" cn Commander Peary had oflercd the North Pole to President I.ait, and tho latter bad said be hardly know what to do with it, it had •struck hi in (tho speaker) that it would bo a very good plan if New Zealand could secure it, and make of it a dumping ground for all her croakers. (Laughter.)

Mr Buxton went on to sneak of tlia ™"ing up of largo estates, and said that whether some peoplo liked it or not, jfc was bound to eomo. It was one of the things they would have to lure; those* who wore without land, vet wanted it, must have it, and it vmuld |>o giveii to them sooner or later. .Uio day was not far distanct when a more intense system of farming would he adopted in New Zealand? when much more would ho extracted irnm the soil than was being- taken from it now and when tho land would support thousands more than it wna supporting now. He would never be n. peirty to taking from any man, land which lie was properly cultivating, but where there wore hie; blocks of country not being turned to tho best account, he would assist, to the utmost of his ability, whoever might be in pewor, to got that land for landless people. Mr Buxton's remarks were well received, and he was warmly applauded, GOVERNMENT AND FARMERS. Per Press Association. MARTON, May 25. At a dinner tendered to the deleKates to the Farmers' Union Conference last evening, the. Hon T. Mackenzie, in replying to the toast of the Ministry, made a vigorous defence of the Government, instancing in particular what_ they had done for tho farmer especially in placing the diary industry on its present" satisfactory basis. He promised reewed activity' in thft Department and declared that a farmer visiting the experimental station in the future would receive more opportunities of education than in fch'e past.