WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 14 April 1908, Page 2

WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY,

The directors of the Manawatu Railway Company^ have exhibited The Manawatu; a perseverance ■• '" and Line. business acumen which

have triumphed . oyer all difficulties,, and brought it about that; how the time has arrived for the State to. take over the line which ifccommenced arid then left to the company to finish, there is a first-class property, in ' excellent ' condition to sell f or , a price ,which will undoubtedly, prove ..highly ; satisfactory to the .* shareholders in, it. yyAt the same time; thefi^is eyery reason to : believe that Y will be '; ii profitably ojfj^^B/^Smte, and. that .'the lnclusionyol^BlPTine liii the 'national raihyay system will add to the convenience of all using -the railways.—Wairarapa Daily News. . , . :

The cost bf living lias gone up, and 77' -.y . the wages in almost every The Country walk of life have also Teacher. gone up, but the unfortunate country teacher has to grind along on a miserable salary after years of study and preparation that would not be accepted by any 'artisan. And it must be remembered that it is the country districts that are suffering from this condition of affairs. ;..' The teacher's life is in many respects a hard and . trying one. .Not only is the salary inadequate, but a. good teacher' may get. veritably stranded in some way-back place, and he gets, no chance of pi;omotion, increased emolument, or change for years .of exacting, honest work. It is a difficult problem, certainly,-, but its solution is surely not beyond the capabilities of our educational authorities.— Clutha Leader.

The approximate completion of the North' Island Main Trunk line * Otago will release a, substantialRailways. Stum for purposes of railway construction Yin X other parts of the Dominion, and a reasonable proportion Of that sum should undoubtedly find its way to Owigo. We still think that it would be best, to let the Otago Central line stay where it is for a year or two and give, say, £60,CC0 apiece to the two other provincial lines, for Otago will hardly get much more than £120,000 until next year, when the Main Trunk will, be finally put of hand!. The malign va pourings of the Ghristchureh Press, the talk about the "Great White Elephant,' and so forth, may be disregarded. For,, years past the Canterbury ..newspapers have been deplorably lacking in the spirit of comity, arid national solidarity when the subject of .railway construction in Otago lias .come up for discussion. With an adequate system of irrigation the Otago Central will pay well enough, and irrigation is ooniirg. — Dunedin. Star.

It is quite true that Sir Joseph Ward has declared against revo. The Prime lutionary Socialism, but he Minister, has been a prominent mem-

ber of all the Governments that have given us . substantial install ments of State Socialism during the past 15 or 16 years. He has very largely extended the underlying principle of Specialism in the State railways, the State telegraphs, , and the State post office; Ihe is practically responsible for the creation of the State lending departments;' he has. assisted in establishing the State

Fire Insurance Department, the State Labor Department, the State Agricul-,-tural Department, the State Land Purchasing Department, the State Industries and' Commerce Department, atid a score of other State departments that are ministering to the needs of the mass of the people. The Conservatives, on the other hand, have opposed every one of these excursions in State Socialism, and would terminate them even now if they could obtain any encouragement from the electors. — Lyttelton Times.