PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 July 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

The session will perhaps be less "stormy" than some people have expecLed, but the stormier it is the ni'i-frin\ in our opinion, if by storninesa is meant intensity in the debating of the series of baseless indictments which the Government's enemies have appeared to think an adequate substitute for a policy.— •Ohmtchurch Press.

Until the loan falls due, and until it is ascertained definitely what the permanent charges to the Dominion will be, it is not possible to say whether Mr Myers' loan was a wise transaction or an expensive speculation: nor is it:possible to make precise comparisons between Mr Myers' loan and Mr Allen's recent flotation.— Southland Times.

It is quite possible that fijeetrad? intentions in regard to wheat and flour have been attributed to the Hon. Mr Fisher unjustly. The:'protests made by miller s and farmers against such a policy may have been premature,, but m case of accident* it is just. a$ well that their opinion. l ; should have been made known. I vifvv of the strops case tlwit lias been made out as to the evil consequences such a policy would entail, it is not probable that the Government will agree to freetr&de between Australia and New Zealand in wheat arid flour, even if they ever had any leanings in that direction.—Tisoaru Herald.

Although many of the shareholders-, whose views are expressed by Mr Kennedy, would like to see the ban!.entirely freed from Government control and influence, we think that the balance of public opinion is against thia course, and would like to see the. Government continue to hold a swl* "'. stantial share in the bank, sent prosperity of which■>"":",' fl l 'i.,„ f injure due to St^< d teXS;an opportune ftllll , ■iSSTII 2L ?*' "settled during * thi s session. !£?**" will generally be"concededthat time has now arrived when the shareholders should be -allowed to increase their interest in the bank, and oonourrently receive a larger ghare of representation on the board.—Press.