PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 May 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

It is unfortunate that, even in this democratic Dominion, foohsh class prejudices still exist, the result of faulty education. The days -when a domestic worker Avas vulgarly term-

Ed 1 'till) siavey" are wot quita past, and it is only by remodelling our educational system, in so far as it affecte girls, that our home helpers will be accorded the dignity t-but is their due.—Dunedin Star.

We know now, foA- instance, that the multiplication and differentiation of cells i* a process conimon to all embryonic de velop meat.—Wa irara pa Daily Times.

We know something about straightout secondary schools in England, Franca and Germany.—Wairarapa Daily Times.

iWhy should New Zealand be asked to undertake to pay pension-* to Australians who may bo resident in this Dominion? Is it not, on the contrary, time to altogether revise the system of old-age pensions, so that these shall be payable only to those actually in need of the assistance, and who have no relations who can be called upon to support a. parent who may have wealthy or ablebodied children. —ißangitikei Advocate. , Now that both sides, the No-license Party and the Licensed Victuallers' Association, have placed their views i before the Government, the liquor question may well be left to the reflection of the public for the present, j —Christ-church 'Press. Only those whose lot is cast in districts where Maori ownership is predominant can appreciate the desire to be rid of the burden of a native aristocracy. For too many years the tendency of the Department has been to encourage th * fallacy that the Maori needed protection from the crafty white speculator. —Ash burton Guardian. The New Zealand Rugby Union has set itself strongly against- any suspicion of prof 'ssionaksm, and all lovers of sport for sport's sake should give the Union hearty moral backing in its endeavour to preserve the amateur status. —.Poverty Bay Herald.

As Dr Gibb said, th? churches hate secularism. "They feel it in their bones." They have lost the power of holding the adults, and they want the State, to step in and bold th? children for them—for the churches. Tt is for the churches and not for religion that the league is fighting. —Carterton News.