The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1914. AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 70, 12 August 1914, Page 4

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1914. AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.

At a time when sentiment preponderates over practical matters it is refreshing to find that there are some people wiho (ire animated by beneficial impulses that tend to assist trade and provide for the needs of -the people in want. An illustration of this was afforded by Mr. Jas. Hine, secretary of the Tikorangi Dairy Company, who during the discussion of the question of assisting the patriotic fund at the meeting of tfhe company yesterday, propounded a scheme that does credit alike to his heart and his business capacity. After pointing out that tlheir butter could only roach the Home market through tlic protection of the Imperial Navy, he expressed the hope that the New Zealand producers would cooperate in consigning the whole of the Dominion's cheese and butter to the British Government at such a fair price that the produce would relieve the distress that is sure to exist during and in consequence of the war. In desiring that the whole of the cheese and butter exported from New Zealand should be primarily devoted to relieve cases of distress amongst the people in want — eudh as widows and fatherless children — Mr. Hine has struck a keynote of practical humanitarianism. The suggestion is one that deserves the very best consideration of all dairy companies who can in this way show their appreciation of the value of the British Navy in Enabling their produce to reach the Home market and thus be sold, whereas without the naval protection it' wouWhave to remain in store or disposed of, probably at nominal prices. The producers could show their patriotism in no better or more beneficial way than that advocated by Mr. Hine. That it sliould emanate from Taranaki is most gratifying, and there is little doubt that the Dominion's High Commissioner would be able to make satisfactory arrangements on the lines proposed. The dairy companies would do well to take the matter into favorable consideration. The idea of getting ''boom" prices out of tlie sufferings of our kith and kin in the Old Country is too repulsive to entertain for a moment. Our dairymen should be only too glad to get a fair price, and at tlie same time confer a great boon on those whom t!he war will render destitute.