PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 July 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

' Tha Lxberalkhav© ilways-given'tho workers to fiuiderst£wad that } i m se- . curing the rights of LaJtiaur, they mi; proceed in their own way and wn. not be tyrannised by agitators, whose chief object is to keep up the indus* ■trial ferment so that they may personally profit by it. The de'iusioi* that the Liberals ha.ve unduly favoured Labour at the expense of Capital •ought by this time to have been, dispelled by the universal acceptance of the principle of State interference in preference to lawless anarchy and industrial dislocation.—-Oamaru Mail. Until the teaching service is placed on an entirely' different footing so as to offer a career to talent, uncertificated teachers will have to be employed in large numbers, and men of ability will continue to shun it or to withdraw from it s ranks after a short experience of its rewards. The presence of a large section, ever changing, in personnel . and never lor enough in the service to fulfil thei? promise of usefulness, cannot but be detrimental to education. In plain language, the effect of applying cheap labour principles to our primary ed;i cation system has been to inflict on it a wide .and deep wound.—Southland News. The attempt to confer the University degrees at Wellington, ended in a disgraceful fiasco, and we hope that the Senate will now decide thjt for .the time at least Capping Day should be abolished. It is a matter of common knowledge that at each of the four University College centres this particular occasion has frequently been seized upon by the riotous and undisciplined' section of the students to create disorder, aJjd in our opinion it is time for the University to resolve that it will no longer expose itself to the undignified and discourteous treatment to which its representatives are ' thus constantly (Subjected.—Aiickland Star. Everyone knows thai,if the Ward Government had been in. office the four and a lialf million loan would have been met by raising another two-years' loan, and error? tiro

' tue ]os; H and Ji&bjlitywouki giwrwiii ■" that luxuriance which is tW fouricta- > tioa of the profits that a oortoin class * of private -noney-lenders make out of J their wretched clients. V Critiois®<rf r Mr Allen's restoration of sane fiamr 9 cial methods' is almost tie least pro- > fitable of the profitless activities P in which our Opposition friend# have ■ engaged themselves.-—ChriatchnrcU » Press. f ' : ■ ■ . ■■ ■ . V I. At present -the Government make, we believe, so objection to a. civil v servant heooming a member of a school committee, and we seti no reason why a similar pennit»ian shoulu not Uo granted in the oase of other local bodies. fc>© long o£ a eau be shown that such membership cioos not t involve a: neglect of official'duties, ■, and that the, interests of the depart- . .Tient of which he %a, servant are not k likely to'be in any way injuriously afy fee ted by the fact fchaffc a civil Servant , is taking pai£ in Jooai politics, it is , difficult to see where there ehoukl be any objection to-his doing stx —- r Marlborough. Express-- , 1 . Before Parfcament. adjourns ade- , quote attention have been , I>iud and allocated to the most important railway project ever placed before the people of New Zealand. In the South Island we have the pressors of an unreasoning and automatic sectional move* ment, forcing, the Government at a time of great financial stringency to ; . spend .ihaif a million- sterling upon a ' oannofc aimS willnot assfet production in any way jijhcKt- ; ever. In- the North ,Islaad amazing- ; ly little interest is taken in idle push- : ing forward qf the East Coast J&ail- . : wagCi; the :effeqt\of 'which will--be to : openup more-country and to> increase wealth production, mora greatly, than has been achieved by any railway yet opened, north or south.—Auckland Herald. For years the stock-in-trade of; Mr Massey's party was simply abuse. They threw mud at the Liberal Government in the Hopeo t&afesomw 1 wsnrM stick. They ignored poditios proper and devoted' themselves to what they call criticism of the Administration* audi what was really/ar constant earn-" cession of allegations of- r stio&dals, charges of corruption,, and so 'forth. Perhaps that was J understandable when, the Refrmerk weravt&etion and had no policy.. Ther still have precious little policy, but'surely they should be dropping: their old wiajys. Mere abuse oft tfaso ot9v gnfe is not dignified, and! weiaire afraid that it will not prove • profitable;— . Timaru Post. ■ <