WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 13 April 1908, Page 4

WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.

Mr McNab has now to supplement a good design with good adThe Land ministration, so as to draw Policy. from the land policy the fullest profit that it is capable of yielding. We leave the question m his hands with a full faith m his talent and industry. Mr McNab. is still only at the beginning of his poli*tical career, as far a^ the uncertainty pf events will permit a forecast ; and he can lay no better foundation for future merit that the settlement of a hundred thousand families on the' soil of New Zealand. As he himself says, such tv settlement is the best possible' way of adding to the 'prosperity of towns and cities. Agriculture and industry, prin^ ary and secondary producer, can and -will work hand m hand, each assisting the occupation and supplying the need .of the other. In reality, everything <de-: pends upon the" settlement df the land question. Without < a contented and progressive rural population, no general, advance of trade is possible; with such a population, there is no limit to be set to' such an advance; Wfe repeat our felicitations upon the promising success of the *land policy 'of' the Government, and we are pleased that to Mr McNab. who had so great a share m creating the success, has fallen the pleasure; of ahnoiincing it. I—Wellington1 — Wellington Post. ■ ' The blatant conceit of Auckland 'is i/ balanced by the modesty ;pf Modest Central Otago. While Auclc-: Otago. land is shouting its dd; mands for everything, Ceil* tral Otago seldom makes its- voice heard m the Dominion at all. The doings of Whangarei and Kaipara are chronicled carefully by the patriotic Aucklandei's; but who knows what is happening <day by day m Cromwell and /Roxburgh? There have been times when the claims of the Otago Central Railway have pee>i put forward, but the still small voice of Otago has been heard with difficulty amid the indignant clamor: of Auck* land for, "justice" m connection With Kawakawa ektension. Some person has said, that the Otago people agitate circumspectly, lest too much .public attention should be attracted to- their line, but even that unkind suggestion predits Otago with a sense of proportion and a national outlook : The idea tliat an\ Auckland railway could ,be less important than some other railway has never occurred to the > northerners., Otago should establish- a Mutual^ Admiration Society, branches m all the centre^ and tike : as a motto : "The Lord gie us a good conceit o' oorsel's."—Lyttelton Times. ,

Stronger arguments than >those brought forward. by the ChristConservatorium church Society of Proof Music, fessibnal Musicians will : :'.' .have to ; bo adduced ;if the public are to be convinced that the scheme ought not \ to be proceeded wttHi, Their main arguir/b'ilt is one which hM , t een brought forward by, membdKs of ' every industry. or calling t which has, been threatened,, with competition; sinee /th^ time pf vjemetrius,. tho, silversmith,, if; not earlier,, namely^ the . danger pi thdir ow,n meaiis ,of liveUhood. .Their lees'ji they say m effect^'^ill be lo\yered, eVeii if they are f iiqt squeezed out of tlie pj'd' fession altqeetlier. Similar „ argument was no doubt, raised . by proprietors „pf private schools when public elementary scho6ls wer'p' proposed, and still more when secondfiiy schools were est&blishech If a consfirvatorium were established there is .no doubt that the : service's, of some of "the best teachers would* be utilised a3 members' of the >taftV and th&t' others wpiild : continue 'to find' pupils to, whom it . wais .not cbnyenient to attetid ; cjassos at. -/ Canterbury. College. ' Tlie establishment of the School ' of Art' has not abolished private teaching by\individual artists ; |n, their studios. There p,re a number of teachers of. music, iii ' Christ-.; church, . howeverv who have mistaken their vocation, and if the establißlimeht of a cohservatorium preyented young men and women ■. from inishihg , into ah, already overcrowded profession to ., teach others 'befbre they' have been , properly | taught, themselves, this would not beHhej least of the (benefits which it would undoubtedi^ . confer.— -Christchurch Press.