PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 June 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

Tho abolition of preference to unionists wixild be a step in the direction of •.:liianci|.iatifi7< Iron unionism's thraldom; but the real want is an fnduitrial .Court vested with, authority to. decide dis|«jt.s iml -legislation to compel olysej-vaiK"" l of those decisions.—Ashburton Guardian

The Bible-in-schools or Scripture instruction controversy is one of those religious or rather ecclesiastical questions which, one almost despairs of seeing settled in the sense of promoting agreement by any argument, however keen, earnest or learned it may be. —Hawera Star.

It is not neoessary that the Government should go so far as to provide ready-made farms in the bush, but settlement would be immensely more successful if main roads Avere made' — not formed only, but metalled—through new blocks of land before it was offered, the .oost of aonding being added to the selling price of tiio land.—Taranaki Herald.

Wq strongly hold the. opinion that banks should not be permitted to pay dividends .of 15 per cent, at all. When more than 10 per cent, is paid over 4a series of yea re, one of, throo things, is happening—either the reserves are not being sufficiently built up, or the employees are Wot being adequately remunerated, or the public are paying an extravagant price far the accommodation they are receiving.—lhinedin Star. W« *rg« tk»t step# «h<wld be

taken at onoe to enforce the law most stringently, and, if necessary to amend it adequately, bo as to protect th€ interests against the machinations of the speculative trafficker in Grown leases, who is robbing with one hand the bona-fide wettler and with the other hand the State.—Auckland Star.