PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 June 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

To build railways anywhero in New Zealand lighter than our standard system would be found as bad a policy as metalling roads in winter, and it is to be sincerely hoped that no amount of pressure* will induce the Government to embark on such a policy until at least tho new manager from Home has had an opportunity of passing an opinion on it. —Bay of Plenty Times.

It is, of course, a tribute to the policy of the statesmen who have directed affairs in the past that the Reform Government have not only accepted the Graduated Land Tax but increased it, and no one will bo disposed to begrudge them full credit for whatever success results from tho, turn they have given the screw. But to appropriate to them the credit of having introduced the tax is to do a palpable injustice to those who were really responsible for its application to the laud problem in this Dominion.—Nelson Colonist.

"When an Opposition critic lacks facts, he makes some up. In Southland, for example, the Opposition organ te!l s its readers that "eight of the Ministers would gladly have given a. month's salary if the ninth (Mr Herdman) con Id hive been persuaded to doff his Public Service fancies with his private membership.' This amusing assertion requires no comment.—Christchurch Press.