30 MAY 1931, Page 2

On Friday, May 22nd, the Lower House received the Land

Bill, and Dr. Addison said of it on the motion for adjournment that " they would not get a satisfactory policy which would be permanently successful unless it inspired public confidence." That is true, and the funda- mental trouble which has dogged his Bill is that nobody has felt any confidence at all that in these days the vast expenditure contemplated could be justified. We are sure that Mr. Snowden has no enthusiasm on this point. Nor has any landowner, farmer, or agricultural worker shown any confidence that agriculture will benefit by the Bill in any sense or degree.