PRESS COMMENT.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1927, Page 4

PRESS COMMENT.

AYi-e nica arc viewing education from a realistic point n! view. 1 hey nre advocating new methods, and are putting aside preconceived theories and the Department of Ed in at.ion. despite its transparent failure in the past must realise that, while no one ail! complain if the gold and silver-clay is well worked by the cdneati-onal artificer. yet the iron variety, which is the bulk, must not be left to struggle through as best it can, chiefly because it is unsuitable for fashioning into the finished article that interests that class of educationist which dees not appreciate the overwhelming importance of giving a new dignity, a higher efficiency. and a richer culture to labour, "ill come only with a broad general education designed to meet the needs of the citizens of to-morrow, who have inevitably to face the changed and

changing conditions of modern business and industrial life.—Timaru “Herald.” It is easy to agree with those who urge that arterial roads must not he starved or neglected, but it certainly does not follow that till other roads should he starved and neglected. The uhole question of tho allocation of the funds available, or to be made available, for the upkeep and improvement of roads needs going into methodically. Interesting questions are raised, for instance, with regard to the claims nl arterial highways and those ol roads which, without being arterial, are capable of bringing extensive districts into convenient touch with the railways. As a whole, the questions raised in this category are somewhat complex, but there does not seem to he any doubt that country ratepayers over a great part of the Dominion are heavily overburdened in maintaining under an increasing wear and tear of motor traffic reads that will never he classed as highways, and that it is only equitable that a share of national motor taxation should be proportioned to the upkeep of these roads.—Wairarapa " Age.”