DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14798, 11 November 1921, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

To give, and substantially, is better llian waving a hunPractical Help dred flags, or makto ing a thousand Ex-Soidiors. speeches. Sir Ceo. Hunter, no doubt, did his share during the war of waving and speaking. But when it came to practical things, doing something for his fellow citizens who had, in obedience to the country's call, faced the enemy, he did the better thing - . How well he did it, with the presentation of a fine estate for the benefit of returned soldiers and the orphans of lliosc killed at the front, the Minister fur Lands lo'ld the House of Representatives. The explanation included the value of the estate, provision for Hie administration, details of its growim: rental. The better thing, wc thus

learn, whicli Sir George Hunter has done well, with heart and head combined, is an endowment which brings in £4OO a year, will presently raise its level to £BOO, and in the years to come ■ —years of gladness to many who will remember that there was remembrance for self-sacrificing citizenship in the land of their sires—will represent thousands. The Minister gave appreciative glow to his description of this fine thing; many members following him kept up the warmth: and Sir George Hunter acknowledged the wellmeant and woll-deserved tribute of the House by modestly acknowledging that tie hart done his duty: rind wc may be surf that it. was not the duty that brought to his good old face the blush which proclaimed the touch of fame. Like most modest, men, lie would rather have been absent. The House was very glad to have him there. It shad been /-'lad to learn during the friendly discussion that, others have rnade similar donations in the same spirit of patriotic and human duty. The precedent should be studied by all men of means with the zeal with which lawyers study the literature of precedent in a ' cause eelebre."