PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 September 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

Jf the Arbitration Bill should pass in anything liko itn piesent form it will mean the death erf tho system of industrial conciliation and arbitration. In any case, it will mean the death of the Reform hopes of support from Labour at the next Goneral Election. If Mr Massey had s«* out to alienate the whole of organised Lasbour, whether under the Act or outside the Act, he conld not have done it m»r« effectually.—Lyttelton Times. Wo cannot imagine that Mr ■Maswey will accept any such alternative »» the Council's Committee have proposed, nor da we think it likely that in the present state of public opinion on this question the people of JSew Zealand would approve of any form' of recolnstitution for the Upper House that did not include, election ew a popular basis. —Auckland Star. In England any income tax payer who is aggrieved at his assessment has the right to appeal to a small Board of Commissioners sitting in secret—since no business man, of course, would care to have tlie details of his income discussed in -pubHb.. We': think that some such right of appeal should he mnboflied -in ihe JSfew Zealand Act.—Christ-church Press. Small holdings—we care not on 1 what tenure—-aro what are most wanted, and the State will tin re to provide them, either out of Crown or out of privately-owned lands, for, failing this, the labour market in thecities will become so congested' as< quickly to breed some of the worst evils from which the Mother Country is .now suffering.—Marlborough; Express.