SIR JOSEPH WARD
RECOVERY AND SURPLUS!
(By Telegraph—Per Eress Association.)
WELLINGTON, Jan. 2
“I am glad to say I am well on the road to complete recovery. Soon I hope to be able to travel New Zealand to shake the hands of my many friends/’ said the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, to-night, in the course of a New Year’s message, broadcasted from his Heretaunga residence, through Station 2YA, Wellington. Sir Joseph added: “I want to thank the people of Now Zealand for their sympathy and kindness to me during my illness. Inquiries have been made from all parts of New Zealand, and from friends in all of the political parties, so that I, as Prime Minister, do not consider I represent one party, but that I represent the people of New Zeaand as a whole. “I am pleased to say,’’ Sir Joseph further stated, “that the finances of the country have kept up well, and it fills one with hope that, at the end of the year, wo will have a credit balance, irrespective of the unusual and heavy expenditure that lias occurred on account of - the earthquake and of the unemployment, both of which have been assisted largely from loan moneys.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1930, Page 6
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