WAR RISKS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 99, 17 August 1914, Page 4

WAR RISKS.

When it is remembered what action the Government has taken with .regard to the vital question of war risks, which at the beginning created such a difficult situation and seriously threatened overseas trade, the dairy farmers especially, to whom prompt and regular shipment to the London market means everything, will recognise the great obligation they are under to the British Navy, and will strain every effort to help. If they will also remember that but for the Imperial Government's action they would now be paying a war rate of 20 guineas per cent, instead of 4} per cent., they will recognise a further obligation. We do not for one moment suppose that the majority of the settlers of this Dominion do not fully recognise the great menace which Britain and her allies are fighting and (the vital need of generous help, but there are some "possibly who may have failed to take the matter as seriously as is warranted. We desire to avoid everything in the shape of panic, and a continuance of normal conditions in so far as possible must be maintained, but at the same time there is a plain duty ahead and dairy factory shareholders must give every support to their directors in whatever course they may deem it best to adopt in a time of crisis such as never before has arisen and probably never will occur again.