WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

Evening Star, Issue 14689, 5 October 1911, Page 8

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

Mr Millar fried l tSe experiment of remKing & second express on the North Island Main Trunk line last year, and at the end of seven weeks found ifc was coating the department £49 a day. At this rate the loss would have reached more than £ls 000 by the close of the year, and the Minister very properly decided that a second express was a luxury which the country could not afford. Now he is being accused", poor man, of giving favors to the South Island which he will not grant to tho North!—' Lyttelton. Times.' , # # * We want to seo the settlement of tho broad, vacant rich areas of the South, which now are hold in comparatively useless hands, opened, unlocked, set before tho earlh-hungry cultivator?, and made tho home of armies, ot prosperous taxpayer?. The domestic animals ara very well in their way, bnt we prefer to fee men, women, and children occupying the lauds I of the Dominion.—Oamaru *' Mail.' ti # # The Government, by selecting two-thirds of our Dominion youth for training upon grounds of physical superiority alone, are J foolishly depriving many lads of their one i hope of attaining normal physical development, as well as depriving the country of I th<» enormous gain it would receive from a general raising of the physical standards. We must stiU hope, however, that wiser and moi* patriotic counsels will prevail, j as we must hope that in the near future every school will have a playground large enough to enable every child to learn and ! enjoy health-giving and strengthening j games.—Auckland 'Herald.' !* * # ! The attention given to the whole ques- | tion of land settlement at the moment is [ distinctly Teassuring, and it is only reason- | able to expect some tangible improvement in the conditions as a result.—Southland I 'News.' * # * The only alternative to reform is stagnation ; and a political party left undisturbed long enough becomes the champion of essential stagnation, however many times or. in however large a typo and bright a color it. may write "Progress" on its banners and its broad-sheets.—T-be 'Dominion.' * * # So fill as New Zealand is concerned, there are, it seems to vs, two outstanding causes for tho higher cost ot living. One is the higher average standard of comfort demanded, and the other is the effect of our fiscal policy and our labor legislation, —New Plymouth 'Herald.'