GG visits exhibition site

The first public engagement of the day yesterday for the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, was a visit to the Exhibition Buildings. The Governor-General and all the members of his party, including the Lady Alice Fergusson and Miss Fergusson, were met and welcomed by the chairman of directors (Mr J. Sutherland Ross) and most of the other directors. The party which inspected the huge buildings included all the chief officials of the Exhibition and many lady relatives and friends of directors and officials. Sir Charles was escorted by Mr Ross, who led the way through the Canadian and Australian building, the motor building, the Government court, the secondary industries court, the festival hall, the fernery and art gallery, the pavilion of provincial courts, the machinery hall, and, finally, the British court. Members of the Vice-regal party were evidently much interested and impressed with what they saw.

Autumn travel worthwhile

Mr W. O’Connell (officer in charge of the local Tourist Office) has returned from a three weeks’ tour of several of the South Island holidays resorts. Speaking yesterday to a Daily Times reporter, Mr O’Connell said there seemed to be a general impression that the month of May was too late for visiting the tourist resorts of the South Island, but during his tour to Queenstown, Pembroke, Mount Cook, Franz Josef Glacier, Buller Gorge and East Coast he experienced only two wet days. Moreover, the travelling, especially by motor car, was more pleasant during the mild May weather than in the hot summer. "What seems to strike one more particularly on this trip," said Mr O’Connell, "is the remarkable variety in the scenery and the special attractions that each resort offers. On the journey through the orchard country of Central Otago at this time of the year the autumn tints are very beautiful, especially round about Roxburgh and Clyde. The journey over the Crown Range to Pembroke is very interesting, and there is a fine view of Queenstown and the surrounding country to be seen from the top of the range. Pembroke," he continued, "is a resort which has become very popular during the last few years, and it is bound to become more so."

Radical land policy

The land policy of the Labour Party is directed to the destruction of all rights of private ownership in land. It is directed also to the abrogation of the law of inheritance. That this should be so is entirely consistent with the objective of the party, which is the socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. 

It would be absurd to say that the land should be "socialised" and, at the same time, to recognise the right of any individual to own land. The Labour Party is, therefore, proposing something that is in complete harmony with its objective when it includes in its policy a provision that "privately-owned land shall not be sold or transferred except to the State." All land, according to the Labour Party, must belong to the State. Consequently, its policy provides that whenever a man wishes to realise his land there can be no purchaser other than the State.  The policy is a coherent one, directed to the one aim of making the community the sole owner of all land. — editorial — ODT, 11.6.1925

Compiled by Peter Dowden