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Observer, Volume XXVII, Issue 38, 8 June 1907, Page 3

Employees have aright to fair treatment in every trade or occupation, but the line should be drawn at extortion, and they will be well advised to give professional agitators a wide berth. — Palruerston Standard.

Gross injustice has often lieen done to the best of colonists, who, in an endeavour to deal uprightly Jwith the Maori seller or landlord, have unwittingly infringed some obscure clause of one of the multitude of Acts bearing upon the subject. — Gisborne Times, m • •

The bread made of the flour from the wheat of the New Zealand fields is dearer in this colony than is the bread from the same wheat in the Home land. It is possible for the Home shipper to pay all charges and to sell a loaf as cheap or cheaper than the New Zealand baker can do. — New Plymouth News.

The true policy of a Lands for Settlement Act, the proper use of it, is that it should be employed to take estates that are really blocking settlement. It has been used not in that way, but as a sop to electorates. The Government has gone around the country buying up estates not primarily in the interests of settlement, but on the invitation of interested towns and townships and under party pressure, and the result is that it has bought well-improved estates which were already producing very largely. — Hawera Star.