SIR JOSEPH WARD

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1930, Page 5

SIR JOSEPH WARD

CONDITION WORSE

(By I elegraph--Per Press Association.)

AV EL LING TON, June 23

It lias officially stated this evening that Sir Joseph Ward had a bad tfurn to-day, and that his condition was lowci than it had been for the past week.

CANA MAN APPRECIATION

WELLINGTON, June 21

The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr V . L. Mackenzie King, has cabled to Sir Joseph Ward the following message of goodwill on his resignation from the Prime Minister’s position:—

“Pressure of duties in connection with the termination of the session and dissolution of Parliament have prevented my communicating to you earlier my deep regret that illness had made it necessary for you to give up your post as \Prime Minister of Now Zealand. I trust that rest will 'bring complete restoration of your health. In this 1 am joined by my colleagues in the Government.”

In a highly appreciative account of Sir Joseph Ward’s career, published in the Vancouver “Province,” it is stated that the retirement of Sir Joseph is of more than passing notice to Canadians, for he wa s the great exponent of the “All-Red route,” and always travelled that way- to Imperial Conferences’. “He will" be remembered,” states the newspaper, “for bis penny postage, his All-Red cable, his being the first Antipodean Premier to raise a loan at 3'per cent, hi s gift to the Motherland of. a battle-cruiser. We will remember him for his neiglibourliness, his sense of humour, and his capacity to see and appreciate our point of view toward common problems. None can wish Sir Joseph years of enjoyment in the fullest measure of health more fervently than Canadians.”