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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 50, 21 August 1915, Page 3

A liberal State pension has been provided, but no Act of Parliament can hope to adequately meet the needs that are sure to arise in connection with wounded soldiers. Our casualty list is already heavy, we have a steadily growing army in the field, and it is a long way to Constantinople.—Dannevirke ' 'News.''

If Germany had, so to speak, fought like a gentleman, Britain would still be half asleep about it, and wholly impervious to the thought that she was fighting for her life.—Grey mouth "Argus."

The war will not only go on, but, in the opinion of men who know whereof they speak, it is but now beginning to go on. — Dunedin "Star."

There ought to be a great improvement soon visible, for we shall not only have impartial government, but the press will more generally study principles instead of personal-ities.—Mas-berton 'Times."

Sir Francis Bell 1 has come to be regarded, by not a few people who have an inside knowledge of the political game as it has been played by the Reform party, as the incarnation of a reactionary Toryism, and there will be an uneasy feeling lest his remaining in the Ministry may not sooner or later prove a drag upon the more progressive and democratic policy which the country has a right to expect from the combination.—Blenheim "Express."

Reputable newspapers will not allow their columns to be made the medium for the dissemination of reckless statements concerning our enemies.—Masterton "Age."

The squatter and the shearer, the merchant and the man who pushes a barrow, the employer and the artisan, the entertainer, the speculator and all the rest, are to have their affairs examined and reviewed with a view to ascertaining how their activities may best be directed to the public service during the war.— Wanganui "Chronicle."