PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 July 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

The experience New Zealand has already gained of the great benefits derivable from preferential treatment of her products by Canada ought to stimulate us to extend the principle as much as possible. —Now Plymou'tlh Herald. If military malingerers have ei grievance, they should make it good by bringing pressure to bear on their representatives in Parliament. There is no other reputable way. Mr Allen hag no right to set aside any law that Parliament has passed and approved, even if he wanted to set it aside. He might as reasonably attempt to set aside the laws for the punishment of burglary or garrotting. —Wellington Free Lance.

It is quite possible that tariff concessions can be arranged between Australia and New Zealand to* the advantage of both countries, but any proposals will have to be very carefully examined from the standpoint that the consideration of first importance is tho adequate protection of local trade.—lnvercargill Times. Over seven millions of money has been expended in land purchase in the last twenty years, and the problem it was designed to ameliorate is with us in forma even more perplexing than before. Instead of helping reform the scheme has actually delayed it.—Wifoangarei Advocate. The greater the facility to transfer the greater is the temptation to take up Government land as a speculation —perhaps the most injurious form of speculation that can be entered upon regards the State. —Hamilton Argus.