THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 16, 24 February 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

SMOKE POIiUTION. Our situation, with the cleansing sea, on one side and (Melbourne is referred to) a vast, tract of forest and pasturage on the other, should make a high grade of atmospheric purity easy to maintain. We have' allowed smoke pollution to start and develop amongst us like a. noxious imported weed. It can, however, be cheeked by means that will throw but c a feeble strain u|)on our voung arid vigorous - industries. — ''Age." THE UNEARNED INCREMENT. The land scheme was an advertisement of--the tremendous resolve of the Ministry^(Fisher's Commonwealth Ministry) to adhere to its policy of publie ownership i and its desire to secure the unearned increment for the nation; but it was calculated to make the average land-seeker gather up, his carpetbag and flee from the premises for his life* -—•'bulletin.'* ■■■■•;'■.-•'