WELLINGTON TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1918, Page 3

WELLINGTON TOPICS.

HHUETOL CBIUCmSM. 1 (From Our Own Correspondent). Wellington, June 20. The lead given to dissatisfied members of the community by the Trades an'i j Lalbor Council in protesting against the administration of the National Government has opened the flood-gates to many pent up complaints. It is not only in lnfßor circles that "helpful criticism" of the candid friend description is being heard to-day. Business men, who have growing grievances against the Railway Department, and, in a less degree, against the Post and Telegraph Department, are voicing them quite frankly, and even newspapers that are all for the suspension of the party fight till after the war are deploring the absence of an official opposition to review the) | policy and administration of the Government. With the war still in the critical stage and with the meeting of Parliament four months away talk of this sort will break no political bones, bat it may tie some indication of what will happen when the Germans axe beaten. j SDPPIiAimNG THE COW. ! 'A gentleman with large interests in | the 'Pacific Islands passing through Wel[Engton this morning on his way to th§ National Dairy Show at : Palmerston North had a good deal to say aJbout the Impending substitution of the cocoanut tree for the caw. He had not read Mr. Singleton's remarks on the subject at tho recent meeting of the Soutk Island Dairy Association, ibut he trarveiled much and had enjoyed special opportunities for observation and was satisfied that within a decade more butjter would be produced from vegetable | oil than from cream. The story, of course, is several decades old, and there still are many practical and scientific [people who believe the cow will survive, foot if this traveller's information is correct it will not 5» many years before margarine, if that is the name of [the future, to tie palate will be indistingmshaMe from the product of •butterfat.