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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1928, Page 4

Democracy has control of the Government, it is the social status of the people that concerns us. That is the explanation of the rise ol Labour in politics. It is with the relations of employer to employed, with the relative burdens of workers and shareholds, with the distribution of taxation, with the educational opportunities of the people, with the care of the aged and the blind and the sick and lame and with suchlike issues that we are going to he chiefly concerned in future. The old party alignment will not serve. There must, ho new adjustments, and if there are wise heads in the Liberal and Deform groups they will apply themselves very seriously to the consideration of these problems, so that New Zealand may not he allowed to drift into dangerous waters. — “Lyttelton Times.”

The Government can remedy several serious abuses without coming to an immediate decision as to the right type of school to erect. The most obvious delect in our past-primary system at present is the indiscriminate manner in which children arc drafted into high schools after passing the sixth standard. A largo proportion of those taking the usual academic high school course have not the intellectual qualities to 'benefit from it and are a drag on those who have. It ought to lie easy enough to impose i| more rigid entrance qualification for the high school without delay, and the obvious saving of money involved should make a strong appeal to Mr Wright.— Christchurch “Press,”