The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1915. TIME TO GO.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 28 August 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1915. TIME TO GO.

The incident of tlic continued employment of si (.'erinaii professor at a New Zealand University College is nowlikely to. rather belatedly (as the Lytetlton Times says., but in the right way, lie ended, and little more need be done than to express satisfaction \vith the new Cabinet's attitude in the matter. Fair-minded people in every part of the Dominion, who are not entirely blinded by personal or class prejudice, must agree witli'the Lyttelton Times comment that if the Victoria' College Council had taken tbe obvious course at the outset, we should have been spared a rather painful episode/ The position was presented quite fairly and definitely for the consideration of the council before there was any sug-' gestion of a public agitation, and. although no action was taken by the council, the public retrained from direct criticism, believing that the trou- . I ble would be settled quietly. The retention, in such a position of an enemy subject was so obvious an affront to public opinion that the situation was frankly an impossible one. Professor von Zctllita's sympathies were not in the question, and bad nothing to do with the matter. Proceeding the writer says:—There is room in such a 'crisis as this for only one policy, and that must be framed with a view to the protection' of Mritisli life and British interests, perhaps we should say. also, British ideals. On broad grounds, tho educational authorities should have had no hesitation in removing I an unnaturalized German from the teaching staff of the Dominion, because the schools and colleges ought to be .kept absolutely free from even the' possibility of German influence. There could be no personal discrimination in the application of such a rule. We have said nothinig of the military aspect of the matter, but there, again, there should have been no discrimination, and at a time when the Government was. very rightly, taking steps to intern all enemy subjects it should have been impossible for a body like the Victoria College Council to continue Professor von Zedlitz in his chair. In view of the decision of Cabinet, the council will now, we do not doubt, accept the professor's resignation and save Parliament the alternative of having to legislate him out of a position which he certainly should not be occupying. j

THE NEW TAXES

Tilt' special Parliamentary writer of thcW'ew Zealand Times says that guesses and predictions on the subject of the new taxes had covered an extraordinarily wide range, and the position of the Statement dealing with this subject was awaited with almost breathless interest. The faces of mem-' hers as the Minister enumerated Ins proposals were an interesting study. It is no secret that one of the factors that produced the National Government was the inability of the Reform .Ministers to draft a taxation scheme that would be acceptable to the country and at the same time to the whole of the Reform Party in Parliament. A section of the Ministerial partv was determined to resist any levy upon the profits of the farmers. Sir Joseph I Ward had faced the needs of the situation boldly, and as he passed from item to item —land, incomes, liquor, railway rates, totaltsator— it was possible to detect the various groups that

alight have been troublesome to any other than a National Ministry. Some of the items of the new taxation surprised most members: others surprised and pained some members