DAIRY FARMERS' SYMPATHY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 6

DAIRY FARMERS' SYMPATHY

A SONG AND A COLLECTION. Mr. A. Morton, chairman of the National Dairy Association, speaking at the conference at Palmerston North yesterday, referred in most sympathetic terms to the loss sustained by dairy farmers ' who had had sons, brothers, or other relatives wounded or ■ killed in the war. He moved— ''That this meeting of the National Dairy Association tenders its sincerest sympathy to all members of dairy companies and others connected with the industry who may have had members of their families killed or eeriously, wounded in the war." Mr. Daysh seconded the motion. Greater love, he ssid, could not be shown than th'isj the mon who had fallen had laid down their lives for their country., The motion was passed, all standing. Subsequently a member proposed that the association should vote £500 to the fund for the relief of dependents of New Zealand men who had fallen in the wai* &nd men who had been wounded in. action. This had no seconder. Mr. Macfarlane suggested a vote of £100, seeing what had already been done by dairy farmers individually and collectively. This did not meet with the entire ap* proval of the meeting. Then Mr. Forsyth proposed a grant of £50., This again did not appear to be generally acceptable. Finally, Mr. Daysh rose. ."I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll sing you 'The Grand Old Flag,' and will pass round the hat and see if we can't .raise £50 or more." There were between 150 and 160 present. Mr. Daysh sang, a collection was taken up, and the sum of £41 lls 9d was collected, of which £23 was in notes.