OPENING UP LANDS.
MINISTER’S FUTURE POLICY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GERALDUS'E, Thursday. The lion. A. D. McLeod (.Minister of Lands) addressed a largely attended meeting at Geraldine to-night. Referring to closer settlement, policy, Mr McLeod announced that, in future, he intended to throw lands tor settlement open to civilians and soldiers on equal terms. Many young men who would have gone to the war had they not been too young, were now in want of land, and should have it. Jf New Zealand did not keejt its expoilta up to £30,000,(KJ0 there would be trouble. It was hoped that this year’s exports would touch 00 millions, but the drop in wool would make this impossible. Roundly condemning a« “absolute piffle” a circular recently issued by Chambers of Commerce, in which the Government was charged with Bolshevism and Socialism in agreeing to compulsory dairy produce control, the Minister did not believe the circular represented 3 per cent of the opinion of the business community, and it said little for the intelligence of those responsible for it.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 March 1925, Page 5
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