PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 August 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

From every point of view the Legislative Council needs reforming, and that at ence. Wo venture to say that nine electors out of tea favour the general principles of Mr Massey's plan, though everybody may differ from somebody else upon one or other of its minor details.—Auckland Herald. When Mr Massey was going round' the country before the election talking in horrified tones;,of the "five million loan,"'he probaWy left _ a good many people with an impression that his own borrowing, if Be gained would be' a comparatively small matter. He used to explain that he did not object to "moderate borrowing,' r but he always gave His audiences to understand that he regarded the ventures of the Liberal's in the money market as grossly immoderate. He may have been quite sincere at the time, but evidently he and his colleagues have changed their mind's on the matter of borrowing, as they, have changed them on dozens of other subjects.—Lyttelton Times. Mr Massey's nerves have apparently been a little upset by the result of the Grey election; but we trust that he is not going to follow the , bad precedent set by Sir Joseph Ward during the last year or two of his Prime Ministership—namely, being too easily "drawn" by the Opposition, and ; making speeches in which there is far too much trace of party feeling and personal bitterness.— Marlborough Express.

When Labour becomes a menace to the country, and persists in steering an arbitrary course, studying the interests of a single class, neither the Liberal newspapers nor the Liberals themselves f will hesitate to raise their voices in opposition. At present all the extreme views of the Social Democrats are innocuous, while their moderate views harmonise with those of the other progressive parties in the House.—Southland News.

I The recent developments iu connection with various systems of "wireless" certainly suggest that a matter of such far-reaching importance to the whole Empire might fye well managed by a representative board rather than by any one Government acting on its own responsibility. The succesis of the Pacific Cable enterprise proves that such joint "administration is practicable, and there is surely no object to which this system conic! be more profitably applied than the establishment and maintenance of an "All Red" chain of wireless communication throughout ths Empire.— Auckland Star.