PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 July 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

From many points it would not matter twopence to the Empire as a whole if the Japanese took New Zealand to-morrow, but it) would matter a good deal t© us. The opposition to the Defence Act comes, as is now seen more clearly than ever, mainly from men who object to its discipline, while seeking themselves to impose upon their fellows a tyrrany a hundred times more oppressive than is contained in the mild requirements of tho Act. —Christchurch News. 0 Tho autocracy of Labour is, as a matter of fact, a stigmatism that bids fair to ruin tihe legitimate Labour party, and the sooner the clamouring minority realise this fact the sooner will the few "still strong men" who are working in its interests ?>nd the way made clear for a- desirable political progress.—-Taranaki News. . It has been admitted on all sides that the inspection of tine mouths of school children is a necessary operation, but it is useless to ascertain that 80 and 90 per cent, of the young people are suffering from a want of dental care if some means .are not taken to give them such attention. It is the manifest duty of the State to establish ssomo sjnstein "of the kimf . the association suggests, even if it should demand expenditure by a <?ovfernment- strongly pledged my.—Southland' News. The Defence Act is not above criticism, nor is the administration, but no more is any other Act or its administration.. .But between helpful criticism and destructive _ intention there is an easily recognisable difference, and it should be the business of "the Government and the supporters of the Defence system to keep tb«+ difference prominent. —Christchurdh Press. It seems to us there is a very strong case, for modifying' the present Vancouver service arrangements to "the advantage of New Zealand, and though we have no desire to interfere with the interests of Sydney, it seemij to us decidedly unjustthat Australia should get the greater part of the material .benefits incidental to the service "gratis," while we, frho pay a heavy subsidy, get, so Tittle in the way of direct return. —Auckland Star.