PRESS OPINIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 3

PRESS OPINIONS.

A holiday arranged by another person is never satisfactory, and this is, perhaps, one of the reasons why children seldom benefit by holidays as much as they .should. They are dragged about too much. They are subjected to excessive fatigue. They are made, as it were, partners in the pleasures of adults, and unhappily one of the things soonest forgotten in adult life in that ehildre e not really interested in the pleasures of grown-up people 1 hat the child mind has its own world, and is immeasurably the happier there. The best holiday or period of holiday-making is that planned by the individual lor himself or in assoeialion with others of the i same tastes and impulses.—“Wairarapa Times.” To-day it lias been established that both iii the organisation of the Empire and for international purposes, the Dominions are equal partners in l lie deliberations of the Empire. I| is obvious that the Commonwealth of British ual ions must, have a common ioreign policy, the alternative to which would he (lissnliit ion of the unity of •that great brotherhood. The great problem before the Empire to-day is the working out of the means by which separate nations, situated all over the globe, can stand as a moral and political unity, in dealing with world problems. Ashburton “Guardian.”

A statement that English official analyisls “are constantly finding traces of preservatives” in finds of various kinds indicates one important particular in which the law in this Dominion is superior to that of England, for here, while the use of certain preservatives is deemed to lie reasonable and necessary, and consequently permissible, it is imperative that the name and quantity of the preservatives used shall he clearly staged on Ihe label. To this extent our neople are protected: they are enabled to know exactly what they are having. - Wanganui '‘('!iroiii,T-'.”

We would suggest to the Labour Department that, with a view ol assisting the primary industry and preventing congestion in the towns, it. issue circulars some weeks before the (’use <sl* the school year, to the farmers of each district, inviting them to apply for the buy labour they require. The bays who are about to leave school could then be advised that there was work in the country lor them to go to. it they desired to obtain it. “North Otago Times.”