MR MASSEY'S HEALTH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 121, 24 April 1925, Page 5

MR MASSEY'S HEALTH.

NO CHANGE TO REPORT. No official bulletin was issued yesterday concerning Mr Massey’s health, but it is stated that his condition shows no improvement. It was stated at that there was no change to report.

At a representative meeting of tho Wellington Methodist Church executive a resolution of sympathy was passed to Mr Massey in his illress and Mrs Massey and family in tho trying ordeal they are passing through. The deep concern felt by farmers over the critical state of Mr Massey’s health was voiced by the president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union (Mr W. J. Poison) at the meeting of the Dominion executive yesterday in Wellington. “We all know that tho Prime Minister lias worn himself out in the' service of the State,” remarked Mr Poison, “and tho least *we can do is to express our very deepest sympathy.” The members ail rose to their feet, and stood in silence for some moments. R.S.A.’S MESSAGE. At last night’s meeting of tho Palmerston North branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association the chairman, Mr B. J. Jacobs, in .referring to tho illness of tho Prime Minister, stated that Mr Mussey had legislated not only for the soldiers us they had left these shores, but also as they returned. Whero tho returned men were concerned, there had been an entire absenco of party spirit, and the Prime Minister had proved most sympathetic towards them. Ho accordingly moved that a letter be forwarded to Mr Massey conveying the association’s sympathy in his illness and expressing the hope that he would soon bo restored to his full measure of health. SYMPATHETIC REFERENCE IN ENGLAND. At a reception tendered to Earl Jellieioe by the Colonial Institue in London, tho company including Lieutenant-Colonel M. S. Arnery (Secretary of State for the Colonies), Hon. W. G. Ormsby-Gore (Under-Secretary of State for tho Colonies) and tho High Commissioner (Sir James Allen); sympathetic references wore made to Mr Massey’3 illness, Hon. Orms-by-Gore eulogising him as a man who had contributed as much as any one to tho Council of Empire. Earl Jellicoe concluded his speech with feeling reference to tho Premier’s illness and expressed the hopo for his restoration to health.