DOMINION OPINION.

Waikato Times, Issue 12180, 15 September 1911, Page 2

DOMINION OPINION.

It is harhly to i-e expected tiiat be land reform question -will occupy nuch of the attention of the y.-mnt ! ioeslon. The amendment of the land | laws in the direction of granting j 'rowr. tenants the right of the free10Id is a matter which the leasehold dement of the House has avoided .vherever a means of escape has presented itself, and as we are now in , he l.ist days of the present Parlia- j raent there is little hope that the j (uestion wili even be mooted.—'Waihi Telegraph. * * * * The r d'w-y officers of this Domin.cn ha 1 , e llc oilSl effective meted f bringiing under the notice of Parliament, by mesins of a petition ■Jiat has been prepared, the grievances they labor under. In the peticion they have instituted a comparison between the salaries paid in the J ost and Telegraph Department and hose paid in the Railway Department, and it is needless to say they would not have done so had there lot been a- wide difference between he one and the other. The Post and lot '>? en a wide difference' between he sunshine of a Minister who make m effort —not always a successful )ne—'to render unto Caesar the things :hat are Caesar's : but Mr Millar is naking an effort to distinguish bim;elf by! defying the the regulations ;hat should guide him in his conduct ;owards the Officers of the Railway >epartment. and certain officers who vere entitled to in their :alaries under 'the regulations issued by the Department have had a real set-back.—North Otago Times. ♦ * * * The suggestion was made on the occasion of Powelka's previous ec•ape —this one, it may be ment.oned. .3 his fifth attempt—that he should e sent to the South Island, "as he nows the country adjacent to the VeKington Gaol." The Ghristohuroh 3 ress suggests, in turn, that this is lot quite the way to look at the latter, dt should make no difference to i the authorities of the Terrace iacl, whether the man knows th* urrounding country or not. Their usiin<ess is ,to keep him in prison, nd the idea that he should be renoved to a part of the Dominion vith' 'which he is not acquainted •igeests that the police admit that it 3 impossible to prevent bis breaking -aol. and so want to handicap him 3 much as pi issible after his escape. - would re interesting to know how lany prisoners have escaped from "ew Zealand gaols in, say, ten years, ve have a notion that the number ould prove rather startling.—Waipa "OSt.