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Patea Harbour Board. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Patea, 16th June, 1906. Please accept sincere sympathy of Board in your heavy bereavement. Board fully recognises your late husband's great devotion to duty and devotion to country's interest. Loss will be keenly felt. McKenna, Chairman. Patea Harbour Board. Madam, — Patea, New Zealand, 4th July, 1906. I am directed by my Board to forward you copy of resolution passed unanimously at yesterday's meeting: " That this Board places on record its appreciation of the great services rendered by the late Right Hon. R. J. Seddon to the Empire and colony, and mourns the great loss sustained by his death. The Board respectfully tenders its sincere sympathy to the bereaved widow and family." Yours, (fee, Mrs. R. J. Seddon, Wellington. E. C. Homer, Secretary. Waimakariri Harbour Board. Madam, — Kaiapoi, 12th June, 1906. I have the honour, by direction of the Board, to express its sincere sorrow and sympathy with you and your family on the painfully sudden end of the life of your lamented husband, the late Premier, who for so long a time had filled the highest position that was in the power of the people of the colony to give Mm. His able administration of affairs had endeared him to the people, and his policy had made him a name in national history which will not be forgotten, and his attention to the affairs of those who applied to him was always so kindly and sympathetic that he will be missed by those who have business with the Government. The many Acts of Parliament which he was the author of for ameliorating and promoting the welfare of the many will cause his memory to be retained as a household word in New Zealand. I have, (fee, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Edward Revell, Secretary. Waitara Harbour Board. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Waitara, 18th June, 1906. On behalf of the Board, I desire to express the Board's deep sympathy with you and your family in your sad bereavement. G. H. Stubbs, Chairman. Wellington Harbour Board. Dear Madam, — Wellington, 22nd June, 1906. With great regret I have the honour to convey to you the following resolution passed at a special meeting of the Board, held on the 14th instant: "The Wellington Harbour Board places on record its sincere regret at the unexpected demise of the Right Hon. Mr. Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand. His great public services to the colony and the Empire will live in the memory of the people. The Board also conveys to Mrs. Seddon and the members of the family its deep sympathy in the loss they have sustained." I am, &c, T. Kennedy Macdonald, Chairman. Mrs. Seddon, Molesworth Street, Wellington.

HARBOURBOARDS. (TO THE GOVERNMENT.) Gisborne Harbour Board. (Telegram.) The Acting-Premier, Wellington. Gisborne, 16th June, 1906 The Gisborne Harbour Board express their sincere regret at the irreparable loss the colony and Empire have sustained by the sudden demise of the Premier of New Zealand, the Right Hon. Mr. Seddon, and desire you to convey to Mrs. Seddon and family their deep sympathy and condolence in their sad bereavement. John Townley, Chairman. Lyttelton Harbour Board. Sir,— 18th June, 1906. On behalf of myself and the members of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, I desire to record our deep sense of the great loss sustained by the Colony of New Zealand through the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, the Prime Minister, and further, to convey heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Seddon and the members of her family in their sudden and sad bereavement. I am, (fee, The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Wellington. T. Waymouth, Chairman.