PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 May 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

Apparently nothing short of imprisonment will suppress'the desire of human nature to possess a ".bit of land," and some people want more than one "hit," and go on adding block to block. There is not a. great deal of this, but what there C the law is supposed to have made provision to meet. Whatever the law may have done the aggregation settler has undone. Ho has climbed over the .stone wall with all its agglomeration of broken bottle s on the top; hut it is not true to say that the stone wall has only been surmounted during the last six months. The climbing ha.» been going on for years, and has .been spoken of in the House and out of it.—Oa.maru Times

Alter all. what can even a brilliant outsider do if the Government int«?i>'! to puisne their policy of-strict owe my? Mr. Hi ley has undoubtedly beei: raised in an atmosphere of enterprise., caused by keen competition, and i: not likely to view coiupku'ently Mir process of slow starvation to wire!' Wie railways of New Zealand are being submitted.—Southland News.

The broa t ] lesson of the Ohrist- ' church election seems to be that a coiifiideralile number of progressive voters have been driven into the moderate camp by their Jack of confidence insomo of the loss-experienced of the Socio l-Democrat : o candidates, and that these defections from the party will go on amtil its members recognise that strong, well-equipped men. capable of holding their own both on tho platform and in the eoumril chamber, are required to lead it to victory. —Lyttelton Times.

The pay of the Poliea Force ctii-tain-ly does not seem to h»v« increased in proportion to tb<* increases that bar* taken pteoa i« * titty •Miipattonß,

and the constable who realises that the ordinary corporation employee is pnid as much per diam a,s h° > s > a,,t ' who contrasts the duties of tbe two occupations, is not Likely to rcgaid himself ab overpaid.—Christchuteh Press*.

For the moment we are clearly of opinion that something more informal and more, adaptable would be more .satisfactory than the Imperial Parliament of Sir Joseph Ward's dream. No doubt that is also Mr Alton'* opinion. When the colonics are able to take an important part/ in the actual defence of the Empire they may look for a share in determining its pol""* But it is rather premature to make much of that at present. —Hawke* Bay Herald.