POLITICAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18792, 30 May 1923, Page 4

POLITICAL

s I COMPLIMENTARY SOCIAL TO Mil MACPHERSON. SPEECH BY MR T. M. WILFORD is . « [Per Press Association.! ( ‘. OAM ARIL May 2A. <J Mr Wilford, accompanied by ficvt.al is | members of th© Libera! Party, attended i a complimentary ‘ocial to Mr Macuin r- . I son in the Drill Hall to-night. I Prior to the social gathering, Mr \ Wilford a largely attend’d ( ' meeting <»f elector.-, in the Opera Houm*. a: which the speaker complimented Mr 'Macpherson on Lis victory. Mr Ransom spoke of the need for I land settlement ami claimed that the II (lovernineii’. authougii professing a pro- ” i.Mssive land policy, vould do nothing . |to promote settlement. Mr Masters alleged that vested id--1 t rests had . ontrjl of the Government. ir Ho criticised the attitude of the banka to t •.'} dairy companies, and denounced f the Lovcrnment's policy in regard io n soldier settlement. He alleged that laud ’“I aggregation was going on in the ek cj r orate of tn * Minister of Lands, when I house after h« < was becoming eir.p.j and schools were becoming vacated and I [>ulled down. Land aggregation was going on al! ever the country, and ?»lf Massey s supporters v ere benefiting. r i Mr Wdfor.i received a flattering icn i (option. He dealt pincipally with the shortage cl money r ained by the policy - of the banks and lending institutions, i | Ik- (laimed that the Government had s deliberately and designedly allowed the - Inrge lending institutions to escape taxation so long as their money does • not go towards the building of houses, d developing business and helping the j- producers. He churned that a State i- lank was the folution. but any such agitation would be met by bank inspired - articles in rhe Massey papers. Ho des manded better housing conditions, and i. roundly criticised Sir Francis Bell’s - statement that schools wore needed Ixv- , fore bouseq. Ho claimed that the Liberal Party—the party in the middle of 3 the road -bid a policy and that Rei form had none. He concluded by holdr ing out hi.s Lands to the workers (these i who stood for the Empire and constituI tional measures) to come over and help the Liberal-Labour Tarty to gain the treasury .Benches, to take up the policy the Liberals laid down in 1911. Entnusiastif cheers were given fol .dr M ilford ami hi; colleagues. Air Mur.ro Labour M.P. for Dunedin. visiting Oamaru to-morrow, and m the evening holds a conference with members of the United Labour II Council of North Otago. JO D ' 1 ■ ■ ■■ -