PRESS OPINIONS.

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

PRESS OPINIONS.

Sir Joseph Ward is a commanding figure;'imperially as well as locally, and whatever his future part in the public affairs of. New Zealand may be; "he will be honoured as 9, man. who has served, his country with a single purpose and with signal success, turnjbo his seat in the House oiKepresentatives will give a mew zest and inspiration to the politics of the hour. —Lyttelton Times.

.... Eighteen months have worked wjonilerful changes. The member for Aw-; - Decemft&r, ;';l9i : m.%. <iouritless iin's J * by dilettante politicians; to-day he undoubtedly could . claim ' a larger. working majority than that; he possesse^, last "General ElecT tion; The "peoplS• are"how -able to." compare good government with bad 1 government; previously they . knew only the one kind, and with the characteristic capriciousness of the age desired a change.—Southland 'News.'";

: : The chief fault that the public find with the Legislative,-Council--, as at*., present constituted, is the iniquitous opportunity they have afforded, not! only for the provision of a seven-year stimeoure far party |favourrtes, /but for the placing in office of men in whom the electors had shown their lack of confidence. Any change, from such a system must make for a more healthy political tone.—Ashburtbri •Guardian.'

If Mr McNab had the political talents of a Gladstone he could hardly do such useful work for New Zealand in the political domain as he id doing, at great expense and labour, and purely asi; a work of love, in the unearthing. aJadpreserrafcion of the fascinating material of the history of its early ''days*'—-Tiai-arn 'Herald.' .[

The proposal liW not been; heralded with any great flcTStish of trumpets; It may not even mean many votes to. the .party from which, it originated; but* is is safe to predict that a few years hence the Board of Agriculture will be generally regarded as one of the most important off New Zealand's departmental institutions.—Auckland 'Herald.'