PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 July 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

Had not the laSe Mr Seddon, and to a less extent Sir Joseph {VVard, so grossly abused: the-nominative Mstem the country would not, we think, have exhibited any desire, * or '* change 1 in the constitution of. the" Upper House. Unfortunately, however, tinder both the Seddon and* the Ward Administration, men were pitchforked judo the Council who had practically no proper qualification for membership of .'a revising" Chamber, and there is now a consensus of. public opinion that a change of /some sort is desirable.—Marlborough Express.

The idea of better pay to teachers on a better basis than the present one is ripe in so far as public opinion is" concerned, and no Government will be able much longer to postponfe its concessions.—Hawera Star.

There is in existence am 1 excellent set of laws to secure, safety in mines, but they are with laxity, both by the owners and the Government. : The bitterness and mination, not to say recklessness, hibited by the miners during the recent struggle, short-lived- as it; was, is certainly an indication that have substantial grievances, and if the conditions in the mines, are as. unsatisfactory as t% m alleged to be, the Government would appear to have taken in hand somewhat tardily a task of no ordinary magnitude.— Nelson Colonist* ..-•

■•. We do mot like the multiplication of State departments, but the problem of conserving our timber supply and making provision for, the future is quite'great enough, to warrant the establishment of some'such Bureau of Forestry as the Commission suggest. It will not be f a luxury: it is already as much a necessity as almost any of the Divisions of the Department of Agriculture, and it wflt produce; results as valuable to the country.— Christchurch Press.