PRESS COMMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1928, Page 2

PRESS COMMENT

The need of hotter co-ordination than exists between wheat grnweis, grain merchants, and Hour millers must he recognised in any consideration of the subject of future supplies. In all marketing schemes it pays the producers to study requirements ot the consumers. I his necessarily involve tin obligation on the wheat growers to supply, as tar as possible,tlm kind of wheal that, is sought for milling purposes. It has been suggested. as one method of increasing tho amount of wheat available tor making high quality Hour, that each wheat grower should grow at least as much pearl or velvet as could be cut in one day say. lo or 20 acres. Whether this is or is not praeticabe is a question which each farmer must decide for himself. The risk may not be so serious as it is apparently assumed to be.-—"Otago Daily Times.” The weak spot in the Dominion s economic organisation is the neglect of successive Governments to make the interests of the primary producer paramount. One alter the other they have sought prosperity through policies designed mainly to please and comfort the dwellers in the towns, and these policies have been paid tor in the end by the primary producers Mr Holland and his party will not he accepted liv any rational person as likely to <lo anything useful to the primary producer, Imt their anxiety to capture the agricultural vote is none the less to he welcomed, tor it. may stimulate the rival parties to think more deeply how best they can help the farmer. And whatever will help the farmer and make land-holding profitable and attractive will lead to increased primary production, and that above all things is what the Dominion needs.— Gh fist church "Press.” The Government last year set up a committee of departmental officers to consider the estimates of expenditure item by item, and to reduce them to a bare minimum consistent with the maintenance ot existing services. A\ *' expressed at the time a grave doubt whether such a committee was precisely Hie class of advisory body that could be relied upon to recommend economies where they might be effected most readily, and without the impairment of administrative efficiency, and that douht was confirmed by the outcome of this committee’s investigations. It is not from within the service that any reform worthy of the name can lie’ effected. The constant tendency there may he said to he towards an expansion ot departments and a creation ot new departments, each one of which ixolves an addition to the administrative expenses. What the (li uterhury Chamber of Commerce see,ns to suggest is a reorganisation through the amalgamation of departments a process which would be direct I v tin- opposite of the normal process, and which is not in the least likely to he favoured within the service. "Otago Daily Times.” Keen where townspeople are concerned. it is far from being obvious Dial daylight saving is particularly l„,jodar. Many housewives are to be beard complaining, that, the ettect ol the innovation has been to lengthen out their working day to an inotdiate degree, and deprive them <>f the o'.-oning hours formerly available for social pleasures, or ns a tine' of restful ,|uiet. A proportion of Those who engage in sports have found it difficult to arrive at a satisfactory adjustment of meal end other bouts, and some of them find the time now available for six.rt altogether too long. It has been a common thing this' summed to see tennis courts and practice pitches deserted considerably before sunset. Tt seems not unlikely that Mr Sidey may find that while the opposition of farmers to daylight saving lias been confirmed and accentuated. support for this innovation m the towns and cities has dwindled very considerably.--'*\Vairarapa Age.’’