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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 267, 20 November 1901, Page 1

We wish to emphasise the general feeling that the Estimates have left behind them, a feeling, namely, that a structure of administration is gradually being set up which is too huge, too complicated, and too costly for the colony to carry.—lnvercargill Times.

The system of “spoils to the victors,” with its attendant evils, is the chief danger to be feared by a democratic community. The system grows insidiously from small beginnings. Even in this country the seed has germinated.—Wellington Post.

If the State can produce coal cheaper than private mine owners, and will sell it cheaper to consumers, it may mean that the private owners will be compelled to close down their mines because their profits will cease. — Thames Star.

New Zealand now exports frozen Stewart Island oysters to London. It ileeds a robust taste to ' staud these huge, tough molluscs ; but there once was an English King who liked his a month old, so perhaps the new industry may succeed—in London, — Sydney Bulletin. The Unionists act as if under the conviction that business should be carried on by the brain and capital of employers for the solo purpose of paying wages to the employees, and their avowed principle is a maximum of re- ' numeration for a minimum of work, — avarcargill Times.