PRESS COMMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1927, Page 3

PRESS COMMENTS.

The possibilities of New Zealand flax have not been fully explored, and, up to the present, investigation along the line of breeding and selection of plants has been carried out by a few enthusiasts engaged in the industry. The grant made by the IGovernment for Ibis purpose will probably have important results. Alost of our essential products must find overseas markets and with keen competition from other countries, we can hold our own only by producing the best. This cannot he achieved by haphazard methods. What is needed is sound scientific and technical guidance and any development in this direction by the Government or by the industries themselves cannot fail to increase the material prosperity of the Dominion.—■'‘Lyttelton Times. 1 '

'Hie -cfl’cc t of “amalgamation of transport interests” has already been experienced in some of the larger cities, where, to aid the tramway systems, private enterprise has been legislated out of competition with the municipal transport systems. I lie result is, decreased and inefficient service and higher costs to the public. That much can bo clone by co-operation between railway ml motor transport is undoubted. If both are run on business lines the force of circumstances is likely to induce reason m both parties, and better and cheaper services should result- This is a very different matter from the State monopoly of which AH' Coates appears to bo' enamoured.—“Tamnak. Daily News.” ___