PRESS COMMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1929, Page 7

PRESS COMMENT

It wonld be unpardonably wrong and •xcoptionnlly, hurtful to the interests if New Zealand at home and abroad, o exaggerate the earthquake’s localised severity. As things , have been in he past, and there never was anyliing to become hysteria! about groteique exaggeration overseas has saddled Tie Dominion with the malicious name if the “Shivery Isles,” and created n itupid belief in many countries that New Zealanders manage to live and pro ;per on the slopes of volcanoes ,along lie edges of boiling lakes and sputterng nuulpools, and among shuddering eimic quakes.—Auckland “Sun.”

During the last three years every mper of any consequence in New Zea and has been protesting against the treasonable amount of roughness in he football game, but no amount of •rotesting will of itself remove the •rib The truth is that Rugby i* aken far too seriously, and is sufferig, as a consequence, from ill-temper nd open commercialisation. It is efreshing ,all the same, to find Dr. lunter saying that “all foul play mst be jumped on with both feet,” nd humiliating that he should be able o add that in five years of senior play e “never saw a man strike an oplonent.” For all the grosser forms if foul play the penalty should be lifemg expulsion from the game.—Christ .1 lurch “Press.”

While the policy which Sir George 'Uiot represents and defends is obiously a highly profitable one for the nnk of New Zealand’s shareholders we are not so certain that it reacts •onefieially upon the Dominion’s comierce and industry. In another por:on of bis address be tells us that ‘there is little outlet for capital in new mdustrial enterprises.” It is not at mst possible that if the bank made •apitai available for investment here u large quantities at relatively low sites industrial enterprise throughout i be Dominion would at once take on n ew lease of life? It may bo that George Elliot lias failed to realise the ’mportame of secondary industries '•ere, 'for he emphasises strongly the immense value of our primary industries and the need for their expansion through the promotion of land settlement. Needless to say, we agree enHrelv with Sir George Elliot on this Inst point, and we Impe that his sound and reasonable advocacy of inter'mperial reciprocity may in due course secure the attention of the Imperial mi" Imrities at Home Auckland • Star.”