PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 June 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

There is a very, strong, democratic spirit in the minds of- the. great majority of New ZeaJanders,,and.a policy, of merely "marking, time" - will not gain the approval of. the public."' There is good,work to be donp in the way of amending, certain crude and too hastily passed measures of previous Administrations, measures which in their working have been found to be of > dotfjgt&l -value., But any reversal, ofj the general democratic policy,iti.wouldnbe simply ruinous for Mr Massey. to. attemptc;, but,, to do that gentleman?, and his colleagues justice, we do not think, they i will attempt, of the kind, — Marlborough .Express; '

With Government, aid. andi under, partial Government control the;. Bank of New Zealand has flourished exceedingly, and has now become a powerful financial institution; so powerful that some of the proprietors have 'grown arrogant, and wish to -relegate to • the. scrap heap the people' whose credit savetLthe bank. -... But it cannot bo done. Instead* cdY Jfesssnihg; G«y,»r.nment control, the strong, probahiliibfes now-axe that.the people will be roused to indignation, and demand, a larger control than they have, had: iin the past.—Eltliajn: Argus.

Cases are not, unknown in Taranadu where the whole milk supply of a factory is-, seriously affepted by the diri. : ,y habits of one or two. suppliers. It is, nwwistrous.tbat. all. should suffer for the fault of. a few. Advice and persuasion are lost upon the lazy and dirty supplier. He responds to. and understands,, one-thing only, and that i s compulsion, and it must bo exercised by the authorities. The live and progressive dairymain will not- object to inspection of his milking ima.eumes or his yards and utersvls.. He would have nothing to lose and a good deal to gain by its adoption.—Taianaki News-..

It. saves a lot of worry to Ministers to borrow on lony tej-ms, but at 4? f per cent, it; does, not necessarily save money or even worry to the taxpayers. We shall have to wait till the end of n&xx, year to see whether Mr Myers or Mr Allen followed jthe wiser course, and in the meantime we must obtain what comfort we can from the recollection that the cost of this year's loan can so no higher.— Lyttelton Times.

It is regrettable that the conscientious dairyman should have to come under the same regulations as the careless one, hut this is really necessary for the protection of both. The dairyman has had plenty of warnings, and been given every opportunity to work out hig own salvation. Evidently, judging- from what was said at Dunedin last week, he is able to do so, and for his own good, as well as for the good of the country, he must be compeUed to put his dairy in order. —Ohristohurch Spectator.