PRESS COMMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1926, Page 4

PRESS COMMENTS.

In camp, even if it be only for a week, there are chances of moving faster, enabling the territorial to feel ho is embarked on real soldiering. The concentration and daily association also help units to realise a sense of individuality, the essential precursor of esprit do corps. By providing all these things for the men under training the camps not only justify themselves, -they prove the most powerful factor iii producing a. real return for tho time, money and effort expended on the national scheme of military training. Their re-establish-ment, with the added assurance that tho traditions founded by New Zealand soldiers in the war are acting as a real incentive to zeal and enthusiasm, promises well for tho Dominion's scheme for home defence.—“New Zealand Herald.”

If it could be demonstrated tlvit the tramway systems provide services that arc entirely adequate for the conveyance of the public in the cities in which they operate, a good deal of the ground on which criticism of the steps that are being taken t-o protect them !<is been based would disappear. That, however, can scarcely be demonstrated. And since there -is room for the operation of private* bus services in the interests of the public, and without competition with the tramways, tho public naturally does not wish to see anything done that would discourage the institution of such services. T’lit it is desirable that tho tramways should have reasonable protection against competition cannot be seriously disputed, thought it would be unfortunate were that protection to operate against the pursuance of a progressive policy upon the part of those responsible for tlicir control. “Otago Daily Times.”