PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 September 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

| , Of course! we shall find members !- like Mr Ell and Mr Wilford complain- . ing that they are debarred from approaching the Civil (Service Commissioners with requests for something to ' be done for some of their constituents. To stop political interference of that kind -was one of* the principal objects for which the Act was passed . It is possible also that complaints may 43ome from members of the service who owe their appointments to political inflluence, and find that they have been deprived of the "pull"' they were formerly enabled to r ■exercise.—; Chri&bchurchi Tress.' , By "the compulsory sale of improv-able-land, the State guaranteeing to the owner in all cases the land tax valuation, and paying him also any surplus where the prices realised are in excess of that valuation, the Government could not only subdivide but could also closely settle every large estate in New Zealand without bbriowiiijg a penny. It would not matter then that the returns from the converted leaseholds were too small to help settlement to any appreciable extent.-7-Timaru 'Post.' Until the test of land-holdirg in New Zealand-ds made the capacity of each individual to exact the full- productive value from the area he holds, large or small, this, the greatest of all national questions, will rever be bo placed on a satisfactory basis. — Chratchurch 'Star.' Mr Atmore may have been inspired by the laudable object of securing a Jily-white purity in public life when he made his charges ia the House, but the impression left upon lis is that the public of the Dominion at large might never have known Mr Simpson existed had his appointment not/been ■nwoel -ft-a «r-ia&^s--W^<^h*^4«y I Dblabor the Government. Members of the House may yet learn that''the public resent the dragging in 'of such incidents simply in order that a paltry party point might I*J —Southland/Times.' The Reform policy requires that the Minister of Railways i§ha.U transfer-to

this General: Manager ffco authority and responsibility he received from Parliament and refer to the official the request made to the Minister, The peopk-. may elect a Parliament, which in turn may'select an executive, but, according to this precedent, the. executive must be subordinate to irresponsible public servants.—'Lyttelton Times.'