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Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 22, 10 February 1912, Page 3

The latest action of the Cabinet of the discredited sham Liberal Party in passing £40,000 to the railway servants without consulting Parliament, conveys the impression that the Ward Administration has become utterly devoid of political propriety. —West Coast "Times." Representative government in New Zealand is in danger of being assailed by something as deadly to politics as cancer is to the body. It ie called the caucus, which means that one set of persons makes the balls and another set fires them.—Hawera "Star. ,, "We should not like to assert that the Arbitration Act has proved altogether a failure, or that it has accomplished no good. On the contrary, we believe the workers owe a great deal to the Court, which, by its existence, has afforded a tangible reason for the promotion of trades unionism and provided a motive for the better organisation of the workers.—Wanganui ; "Chronicle." Statements lately made by or on ' behalf of the Labor members return- ' ed at the recent elections show that i the constitution of the New Zealand 1 Labor party tends to the creation of i a political machine, with a select few i in Wellington exercising the right 1 of dictation to the whole party i throughout the Dominion.—Hawera i "Star. ,, i