SIR JOSEPH WARD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1462, 10 June 1912, Page 4

SIR JOSEPH WARD.

:;S.E§iON'gfFHq^ ;;', Sir;•■■Jo^fi..-Ward^'ha'sT<iMim'al^.,ib : -iiis the*Gpyerno'iV;:!iis *,withdrawal' .from" this '.'position-:' bfANcM"'''-Zealand. reprc..soiitatjyevori'jtlie/impe^ . Sir X Joso-ph ;Wavd .said'Hha.t:ho':.lia'd como ,to:,this' dotcriinination 6w:ing.-.t6Vtho\fact:.that;thoiiltora-;un.ttliO-itinerary?;srofUho:;commission ha'd^rciidered'(it : --diraci:lt:for';hiiii; to, carry ,ouf .'his.'^Parliamentary - ''.diitics'Vaiid- attend wprk'Voffitliajv: commission;.:. .Beforo ':ap'eein ,^''feiaccept,«thoj<, position,^lio ! "w(is : i'nforiiied:-th'at; : ./tho' cominission':;woi!ld ; : eit / had. .'sirico ; - been'.': dccidodJ-tp;HakeAcvidonea' Jin ; :: ; Engiahd v : ;: first,'..: ?nnd ly ■7i'!ibugh' ? o'h'.the.whole,.lie thouglit.tliat best, attended H tho"- com--woulds-involve-this abseiiee from 'Parliament' : :'for-:thß,' ; -w-hole of:',next session, Valid'fr'onfi'that'point.'of.,new,;that', course wa.S:-ii'ot. : practicKblo''unless.ho.rasigned his isoai KiiV" I , a'rliament::V...:.As.:-,he- believed, in i :dischnr^riß''tlte,dutie3 : '6f.any : : positiou ho ■itopk.-uiy'who.le-UWrte'dlyf'and could not do ijustice-'to: ; bbfcbi?h'e : ''preferred toiremain' a 'r'epresoutative'iof'the'.'people, and- had. do'cidod': tb'Vem'ainJ.hore.-s'.Ho- had' fully con- : Bidered:tiic:inatter-i.as to'whether he should :resigffi'lii3 : 'soat inE?tho'- House of Repre-:-;sdntati'vVs':'andl'attend:,tho commission, and elect another iTepresentative'i-and-lie'.liad-arrived at.his ;decisibn;?afterTcarefuUy;H'considering - the : :'wh'blo:mntt<3r,'!.oiiita',voi'iintari!y, and with*6ut: thslslightestyiesitntit)n.;:; ; ory pressure

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