PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 June 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

If there must be some check npoh hasty legislation it could be produced a g<x>d deal better by a "revising committee than it can be by a second chamber wihich exists in the minds of the Conservatives simply to delay the will of the mass ofv the people. An elected Legislative Council holding office for six years would be much more obstructive than a nominated chamber under the present system, and would be an ,utterly undemocratic institution.— Times.

Mr promotion to" the Speakership a graceful 7 of his services .to.the Government}, and it would overmoreover, the difficulty that must present itself to Ministers when they think of sacrificing the vote it. the House of one of their pledged supporters. From the Reform point of view, which is concerned closely with the strength of parties in the House, Mr Millar's oppointment would; be admirable tactics. The Reformers have no votes to spare, and it is not likely that the by-election for Grey will a.dd to their strength.—Tima rti Post.

If Sir William Hall-Jones would accept nomination to the Upper House it would be a graceful and popular ae if Mr Massey were to include his nam ampngst new appointments. He ha a ripe judgment, wide experience, aiic a clean record, and men such hj; is could do good work for the country.—Hastings Tribune.

Such a staunch supporter of the Massey party as the Auckland Herald complains bitterly of the Ministry's failure to improve the railways, and without emrnorafcion of its neglect of opportunities it need only be said that the public are becoming more and more aware that the Conservative Government are scarcely likely to become the brilliant success they pro phesied it would be. The Government, instead of tackling reform * ir earnest, show a regrettable disposition to continue the.bad old custom of '<>< ting their departments run the shn'.v. and they are becoming a very good J exponent of the lazy man's- doctrinq r of laissez-faire.—Wangamii Herald. |

New Zealand lias a citizen -.army now 1 , and one that she may be proud of, considering how short a time has passed since it was established. Give it another five years, and the old women of both sexes who now denounce it will find no hearer s for their Comio opera protestations, their foolish threats of defiance, and their still more foolish incitenents to lawbreaking.—Christchurch News.

There are, no doubt, Civil Servants who think they could do well for themselves if they 00:1 Id only plunge into the already thick throng of political writer s and sneakers—officials who chafe at the disabilities entailed by their positions, and who would rid themselves of their restrictions without foregoing the advantages and privileges which those positions eonf&r upon them. But the vast majority of the State's employees are fairminded enough to realise that they must abstain from political activities. —Christchurch Press.