SOCIALIST PARTY’S POLICY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19358, 13 July 1925, Page 9

SOCIALIST PARTY’S POLICY

(To the Editor). Sir, —In the New Z. aland Labour ; Party’s platform it is plainly stated that “ privately- owned land shall not be sold or transferred except to the State.” Mr H. E. Holland has stated publicly that this does not interfere with the rights of inheritance. Now Mr C. M. Moss, one of the party’s candidates in Dunedin, writing in the Otago Daily Times of July Ist contradicts Mr Holland and says: “Mr Holland mis-states the position when he says the proposals do not in any way interfere with the rights of inheritance.” It is a case then, of there wo aro but where are we. Who is right and who is wrong? What a muddled platform it is when the members of the party are in conflict as to what it means. If a man could not transfer his section of land except to the State, and that is what the platform says, then clearly such would bo an interference with the right of inheritance. A man cannot inherit what is not transferred to him. However, Air Holland says such proposal docs not interfere with the right of inheritance and Mr Moss says it does. Where docs the party stand? It wants the country to adopt a proposal about which its own members arc divided as to what it means. City electors should remember that the proposal applies to city land as well as to country and be on their guard with reference to such wild cat proposals which the party’s own members are in doubt about. The working men and women who own a section of land want the right to be able to sell or transfer it if necessary. It is time they woke up to tho fact that this so-called Labour Party proposes to take that right away from them. The party’s land policy is a hoax and the workers who think should oppose the application of such mad socialist theories to their affairs. If they do they will be the sufferers not the socialist politicians.—We aro, etc., N.Z. WELFARE LEAGUE.