PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 May 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

Proportional representation certainly would bi* a "self-derayiirg ordinance" to the iVime Minister and his political friends. It would give them just the representation in Parliament to which they were entitled by their party strength in the constituencies, and that, of course, would not be sufficient to enabe tliem to dommate the administration of the affai«Bbf the country. The LiberA* arid Social Democrats and vWßfcjyJm? l ' party would be in theand Vvi'y quickly by the mere force of circumstances a system of nonparty government would he brought about.—"LytfcMton Times."

Xicx-aT bodies in this country for the most part possess very valuable €undowment«, and it is in the interests neither of thi local bodies nor of the Dominion that tlieve reserves should be administered in,'fficiently. State administration of all reserves and endowments is the natural remedy for tl»3 difficulties with which so many local authorities are confronted.—Timaru "Post."

The Chinese aud the Japanese have different methods and different manners from our own, and thev would no mocp mix conveniently with our population than oil would mix with water. Tho whole history of attempts to coaleso.* the two nationalities lias been owe of failure, and the easiest remedy is the on-? California seeks to establish, ami we have already partially established, and that is to exclude* tho alien altogether, unless he a man of independence and education.—Taranaki "News."

Our land policy is sound enough ui theory. What the country needs is to get it carried effectively into practice; and we trust that the people of New Zialand in general, and of Auckland district in particular,,'will, never rest content until they secure, for themselves tlios-3 two advantages indispensable to our national progress —good roads and facilities for taking up all the land fit for settlement in th-3 Dominion.—Auckland "Star."