THE LATE SIR JOSEPH WARD

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1930, Page 5

THE LATE SIR JOSEPH WARD

t V -' - . '■ PRESBYTERIAN TRIBUTE

* (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, July 9

The Wellington Presbytery, at its meeting, to-day, referred to the passing of Sir Joseph Ward. ;■ , The Presbytery recorded the follow-] ing. motion: .‘‘‘The Presbytery desires. ,to express its sincere sympathy with the family and friends of Sir Joseph Ward/ late Prime Minister, in the bereayhiiient which lias befallen tiieni in his death. The . Presbytery also expresses its sense of the loss which the community has sustained in the death of this statesman who, through many years served his country and Empire with conspicuous ‘capacity and untieing devotion. His commanding abilities. merited, and received, the high esteem of his fellow citizens,, to whom he whsalso endeared by an unfailing courtesy and kindness of heart. The Dominion has,' in losing him/' lost one of. its great men.’ ’

TROTTING CLUB’S CONDOLENCE.

WELLINGTON, July 9

■ At the annual conference of the New Ti'oftfng' Chibs to-day, 'a mbtipn of sympatliy With the relatives of the' late Sir Joseph Ward was moved by the Chairman (M,r J. Rowe), who paid a, tribute to Sir Joseph’s memory, and the motion was then carried. i

THE FUNERAL AT BLUFF, j

WELLINGTON, July 9

, ,The , arrangements made ; for ( S]r Josepk’ Ward’s funeral at liJufF will give members of the House and Legislative; Council an opportunity of attending the burial arid arriving back in Wellington on Tuesday morning. The official party will leave on Friday evening and go straight through to- Invercargill on Saturday. It will be able to return to Christchurch on Sunday and leave Lyttelton on Monday evening.

■ .The -Prime Minister and' his col•leagrieg,■ of the Cabinet . will be , the ■ pall-hearers both: from, the Invercargill Basilica and to the igravesideat Bluff. < Arrangements for the funeral are in. the hands of the Prime Minister’s Department land-/.the- Department of . y..., ; ( , i L FEDERAL SYMPATHY. ’!, ■ ••- ••■ ■'CANBERRA/ July 10. : r = The. Prime Minister .sent a cablegram toßpn Forbes. asking him to convey to. Sir-Joseph Ward’s family the deepest sympathy of the .Government and people of Australia. ,

London, i July d, ; • ( <Mr Raurta? MacDonald cabled to the . Oovcrnor-Oenorttl of New Zealand t; , J!.We shall jnofc- forgot how deep a debt of gratitude we owed Sir Joseph Wara . for: his record in Empire and public service,, and his wise statesmanship and ..unswerving courage, both in peace and Var, ,i I personally; , regret tlie loss or an old.friend.”.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS, i . . WELLINGTON, : „July‘ 10. , Tlie casket containing the body of. Sir Joseph Ward! was..transferred this -. morning from ,the -Basilica to I’arlia/mChi, House: where it lies in. - state tillUhe "funeral 'to the 'ferry./steamer ; this afternoon. : ’ .f-Four /members of the Permanent / Uorqe undey Captain Andrew, V.C., and" Lieut. Page, guard the coffin, as the general publio file silently past the ‘catafalque. It. was originally, intended that the funeral from Invercargill Basilica oh Sunday should proceed by road to Fluff,' but owing to the had condition’ of that, highway, .the Railway Department has been requested to provide facilities for tile transit of those wishing to attend the list nt-s at the graveside. , ' The chief nouiners leave for In ; - vercargill with the body to-night, but' the ' parliamentarian's leave tomorrow night..

A MAORI LAMENT. . ; .// ‘ WELLINGTON, July 10., Jn a manner typical of the race, a large gathering of Maoris assembled round Sir Joseph Ward’s bier in '^Parliament' House and with bowed ‘heads' intoned ail’ emotional lament. 'jt ; was 'a representative assemblage of tribes throughout New Zealand. The leader of the dirge was a woman, Tunihira Hinewhakina..