PRESS OPINIONS.
The only reasonable construction that can be put upon the clauses of the Education Act dealing with, the appointment of teachers, is that Parliament intended die committees to be consulted by the boards, and to go through the form of consulting them while submitting only one name for their acceptance is manifestly farcical. If the board have construed the Act correctly, and their powers in regara to appointment are entirely subversive of the rights of the committees once enjoyed, then, in our opinio:;, the Aot should b? amended, for it seems to us that school committees have a legitimate claim to make their voices heard in regard to the appointment of teachers, av.-l that if this right is denied them they cease to have an appreciable value as factors in our education system. However, it is open to question whether such a regulation as the board have now adopted is not ultra vires. We hope that the committees will take steps to tset the board's pretensions'without delay. —Auckland Star.
We are assured that the prime Minister is in favour of "settlement, more settlement, and still more settlement." We have no reason to doubt his sincerity, but we have grave reasons for qu?stioning the efficacy of his methods. Tf confiscation be necessary to carry out the policy laid down by the Government, nothing which stops short of it can be considered entirely satisfactory. If persuasion will not serve, compulsion should follow in logical sequence. Ministers admit this when they declare that if the tax be not effective it. can be further increased.—Southland News.
The position is that either the Liberaly will be led by Sir Joseph Ward or there will be no longer a Liberal Party worth the name. It is a tolerably reasonable proposition that if Sir Joseph cannot unite the old party no one else cam, and the disgruntled Lib<?rals ma.y just as well make up their .minds to accept one or other of those alternatives.. —Christchureh Star.
We quite sympathise with Masterton in the handicap upon its progress which the expensive Riimitaka mountain railway imposes—its only direct communication with a sea port. We think the Government should give more serious consideration than it has don? to the Rimutaka deviation proposal.—Palmerston Times.
The Opposition press has already established a record for the number and grossness of its misrepresentations, and when they are gathered together for public Sn-spection they will make an interesting and instructive collection.—Christchureh Press.
With settlement goiffig on so rapidly our exports ars bound to go up by leaps and'bounds. It rests with a,ll classes of the people, howeve-r, to practise economy, thus reducing our imports so as to give an animal balance of three millions, of excess of exports over imports. Then everything will be well with the Dominion and our prosperity will become a very real tiling, and not be dependent upon the constant, inflowing stream of loan monev.—Rokitika Times.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 4
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487PRESS OPINIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 4
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