Banquet to Sir J.G Ward

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 183, 1 August 1901, Page 4

Banquet to Sir J.G Ward

WELLINGTON} July 29. ; Ths banquet tendered to Sir J. ; ; Ward*-Minister for Railways andpotft-’; master-General, by the. -Liberal .and ;; Labour Party of Wellington upon thl ■ conferment of his ~ knighthood -took pUck. in'the Drillshed to-night'. The attend? i| ance, which . numbered ov&f 800* was j • thoroughly representative otall Classes cl ' • S the community; Mr Allan. Wizard y occupied the chair* on* his 1 right being, the r 1 guest of the evening, and on his left thS6 s | Speaker, Sir Maurice O’Rorka. • ~- . 1 ; XheHops. W. 0. Walker, W. Hall; \ Jones, J. McGowan, J. Oajrroll, IVY.,; 5 Dnncan and C. H. Mills, and a | number of members of both of; || the Legislature ■ were also . present;; | Several apologies for absence w&e read, j| I among the number, befog Alie- from^Lli’e' | Bight Hon. R J. Seddbn, • wlib/egrette® - -V | th it a very severe cold •prevented, his | beingpres'ent.. . . | Replying to the toast of bin health, Sir J J. Ward, who .was enthusiastically | received, quoted; figures’ : to' remorve life - ', 1 impression that seemed to exist in some " f| ■ quarters that the colony had reached the | ’ height of its prosperity .and was on - ther s- , Wane, They'should.not allow thomselvefe . | • to-be controlled by any spasm of- pesdtnism which might be baldlilaled to siPd - i j the colony, backwards instead of for-’; wards. Therfe--was abundance of in >hey • in the banking institutions at the-present \ tiuie, and there was no justification' whatever .for pessimistic cry.- Hi scouted"; ; the idea of any reversal of our prosperity. > All classes of the community were in a' " a; miioh better position than when tho p esent administration took - office, and . \yjt.h a. vigorous, though pVudent, publib / war s polioy, nothing could deter. tLfe J colony •in ,ts march of "progress. He, ■ %utjly thanked the gathering for tho , ircatsboßour that had that evening been. ’ j < tendered-to Kim. ' ' During : the evening, Sir J. G; Ward , was presented with a handsomely iliaminated congratulatory addiess froih J . piominent Wellington trades unionists;, ~y