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Observer, Volume XXVIII, Issue 27, 21 March 1908, Page 3

One has but to stand on the streets of any of our towns or cities at eve or early morn, and note the crowds of women and girls flocking to or coming from factories, shops and offices, to realise that the idea of becoming one day a wife and the mistress of a home has never entered into the scheme of life of this mass of femininity. — New Plymouth News.

Racing in New Zealand was never at a lower ebb than it is to-day, and something must be done to ensure better conduct of the meetings, and that the public are not fleeced in the barefaced, open-handed manner they are at the present time. — Hamilton Argus.

The land which can grow the giant kauri cannot be said to be unfertile. Some element is wanting, and it should not be difficult for practical scientists to find this out. Then shall the poor North be converted into the rich North, and this portion of the Dominion. be second to none. — Hokianga Times.

Already the lack of timber is beginning to tell its tale in New Zealand, and it therefore behoves the community at large to make every possible effort towards conserving the wood which the country still possesses, and to encourage by ail possible means the planting of new forests. — Carterton News.

Place Mr Massey in office, and bis tirst duty would be, judging by his speeches, to undo all that has been and is being done for the settlement of a thriving people on our lands, and the general advancement of our best interests. And what does he ofier instead? Simply nothing. His entire energies have so far been devoted to asserting that " Codlin, and not Short," is the friend of the country, without showing how or why. — Blenheim Express.