PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 June 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

The members of the police force have ampKj legislative provision for airing ally grievances they may have, and they constitute a branch of the service which ought to be kept especially free from political and labour influences. The Government have taken a properly firm stand in this matter, and if they would relax some of their harassing regulations with regard to tho literary requirements for promotion in the Force they would probably hoar nothing more of the proposed association.—Taranaki News.

The present Prime Minister has caused a return to the tradition of Britain and other British communities in choosing colleagues for their capacity to manage the departments with which they are entrusted, _ and respecting their authority within thoaa departments. Both Mr Seddon

and Sir Joseph Ward would have he™ better off had they had for colic igues men a.s capable of doing business in London as themselves. —Christchurch Press.

It was (lie cndo.vour of tin* enemy to make the ]K*ople of the Dominion believe that. Sir Josph Ward, whatever the merit** of his past, hid not done anything worth doing, wild had come to the end of his initiative. Bat this stupid statement stands refuted by the long list of measures distinguishing his last year of of five, and at the bark of them i-s the long list of me;suro s noted in the Governor's Speech which opened the short -session made memorable by the resolution of the. man who sacrificed himself to the of his party.—Oainaru Mail.

The Inspector-General of Schools .submitted to the. Education Commission his scheme for gradually increasing the stiffing of the larger schools in accordance with the authority of the Act, but nothing apparently is being done to put that scheme into effect. We believe that the cause of the delay in introducing this pressing reform is not so much the additional expenditure involved as the fact tint the additional certificated teacher s required cannot be obtained. —'Southland News.

Tn peace we may feel rivalry, but war will find Australians and New Zeal'iulers together, like the brothers that they are. Bnt the tie between us made by the common flag and Crown and tongue do not 'suggest a indisposition on our part to sink our nationality and individuality into the status of :i, petty appendage to the continental Commonwealth. That we shall never do, and wo may safely assert that no New Zealand Government will ever make the 'suggestion. At ;..ny rate, there i s the fact that no such suggestion has been made by Mr Allen. —Auckland Herald;