PRESS OPNIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 July 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPNIONS.

'■'"WlMftiNew. Zealand require® most is systematic advertising, and this is what the two Liberal Prime Ministors, temporarily obscured by a. conspiracy of adverse circumstances, are giving it.—Southland News. As to till© evil of over-insurance, .that is a matter for the insurance oompanios themselves. .The-root of the evil lies in tihe competition for business. The companies have no desire to increase their riaksunneoessarily, but each manager knows-that if !he refuses «. risk on the ground that the amount is too large his riv?l in business will probably take ftNatuiwilly lie prefers <to keep the business and gamble an hie chances. None the less, over-insuranoe is an evil, and some effort should be made to check it. New Zealand's fire losses? are too high, and in the insurance world the name of the Dominion is word.—Southland Times.. What the people of New Zealand havo to consider is whether freehold run mad is to continue to dorriinatfv the land policy of tihe country, or Whether the saner and moire statesmanlike methods of the past, are to be restored. If what hias happened at New Lynn should open their eVes to the danger before them, £25,000. £30,000, or even. £IOO,OOO would! not be too much to pay for their awakening.—Lyttelton Times. The average "passive" resister is usually of a type that the Defence systerii of thp country could well d° without, but when the law is directly challenged—and especially <a law 'which is 'supported by all •save a swill olass who want to enjoy citizensliin without paying for it—there i$ only one course to bo followed by any Government worth their salt; and wo hope to see the better members of tbr Opposition supporting the Government in this mntteiv There will.be no profit, lvut. only discredit, for anyone who attempts to embarrass Severn Tient in its resistance to the mean conspiracy of the shirkers.— Ohristchuroh Press.