PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 August 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

Since financial matters have absorbed.Mr Allen's attentions he has been compelled to leave the Education Department and the Defence Department largely to the care of his'officials. The result has not been satisfactory in either case. Mr Allen cannot be blamed for not achieving the impossible but the Ministry as a whole can have no good excuse for so burdening one of its Ministers that he is compelled to postpone till next year work which certainly ought to be clone during &e present session of Parliament.—Lyttelton Times. Until the* New Zealand Government are able to place lands on the market sufficient to satisfy our own landhungry population and provide a surplus for immigrant farmer's, there is

little prospect of New Zealand's immigration policy becoming a serious drain on the Mother Cc.ui.try.—Auckland Herald.

Mr Massdy lias peculiar hiraanitanian ideas, and the starving of the Advances Department is just on a par with his .solicitude for those poor unfortunates earning between £4OO and £7OO a.yeary who are to be relieved of paying tax, or for those holders of State leases at Grey Lynn who have just been presented with £30,000 by the - Massey Government. What of the 100,000 landless or of those in receipt of considerably less than £4OO a year? Echo answers: What?—Wanganm Herald.

There is nothing in the condition of the teaching profession to induce young people to enter it, and the Minister's latest proposals will not improve the outlook tjPyi appreciable extent. The needs of the profession demand far more thorough treat-nenf, than the Minister's patchwork" schemo can afford.—Timaru Post.