SOCIALIST PARTY’S LAND POLICY.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16545, 14 July 1925, Page 6

SOCIALIST PARTY’S LAND POLICY.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —In the N.Z. Labour Party's platform it is plainly staled that "privately owned land shall not be sold or transferred except to the Stale." Mill. 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 Duncdin, wriing in the Otago Daily Times of July 1, contradicts Mr Holland, and says "Mr Holland mis-states the position when he says Mho proposals do not in any way interfere with the rights of inheritance.' "a It is a case, then, of there we are but where are we. Who is right, and who is wrong'.' What a muddled platform it is when the members of the parly are in conflict as to what it means. If a man could not transfer his section of land except lo the State, and that is what the platform says, then clearly such would be an interference with the right of inheritance. A man cannot inherit what is not transferred to him. However, Mr Holland says such proposal does' not interfere with the right of inheritance and Mr Moss says it does. Where does the parly stand? It wants the country to adopt a proposal about

which its own members are 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 ence 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 aide to sell or transfer it if necessary. It is time they woke up to the fact that this so-called Labour Parly 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 not they wjll be the sufferers, not the Socialist politicians.—Wft are, etc.,

N.Z. WELFABE LEAGUE.