PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 June 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

It is evident that we must rely upon our own resources in the future more than we have done in the .past, and it behoves the people of the Dominion as a whole to take careful stook and act accordingly. Wayward arid self-indulgent as we aire, we have proved before now that w© can "take a pull" when neceseity arises. If wo take the advice of the chairman, of the Bank of New Zealand, who speaks as ''one having authority," we will take that pull now. —Tananala News.

Why should tlhe policeman be starved in order that the judge may be fattened? Nobody knows why,/unless, it. be the Ministers ; and tibey won't tell. This paper does nob object to a judge drawing £2500 a year, if he's worth it. That is not the point. The point is that no Government that cannpt afford to pay its policemen properly can afford to raise the already high salaries of its judges. Policemen in Now Zealand are not, as a class, paid; they are badly paid. Judges as a class are not illpaid ; they are paid very well. —Wellington Ftae Lanoe.

, In a Honse of SO metnbern t.h* pledged Reformers mraber 30, that - they cin -ill afford to do without a single vote. There is, Vtf course, another possibility. The Grey seat ha s to be filled, and if the Government could win it their position would be considerably less anxious than it is. The Grey electorate, however, has rem'lined faithful to the cause of liberalism for a great years, and there is no reason why its political creed should be altered now. —Hamilton Times.

No one expects impossibilities, nor did the public anticipate the arrival of the millennium five minutes, after Mr Massey and his colleagues assumed their" portfolios. But they did require evidence of effort, and now, after the lapse of close on twelve •nonths, the public is beginning to think that the Massey party had its tongue in its cheek vrhon it made its boast of aj "square diml." Certainly its actions do not inspiro much belief iri its statement that it possesses "the confidence of an overwhelming majority in the country."—Wanganui Herald.

It is probable that in the light, of the Commonwealth Senate returns the Hon. W. F. M.issey and his colleagues have realised how poor, their prospects would be if last year's Legislative Council's Reform Bill becatne law, and the result is the proposal to arrange smaller electorates. The Government, of course, are committed to a trial of the proportional representation system, but if the electorates are made small the result may be to counteract in some, measure the adoption of the democratic principle. That is what the Reformers will strive for. —Timaru Post.

But the feeding of Prime Ministers by public bodies all over thie country with the unabashed intention of thug "getting something out of him afterwards," is, in our view at any rate, a vulgar inversion of courtesy and a sinister phase of publio life. Certainly there is nothing to lie said for a •nubl'** lynly in the position of the Whan"arei County Council cultivating a champagne appetite on -a bank overdraft. —Whangarei Advocate. For Influenza take <ls' Gre*t Peppermint Cure. Ne»«r Sill* Is Bd, 9s f