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Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Dear Madam, — Hamilton, 4th July, 1906. I have the honour to forward herein a resolution passed by this Board, as under: " That this Board desires to place on record its deep sense of the great loss sustained by the colony through the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the Board also desires to convey to Mrs. Seddon and family its profound sympathy with them in their great sorrow." I have, &c, Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. W. T. Conradi, Secretary. Wellington District Hospital. Mrs. Seddon and family. Wellington, 12th June, 1906. The usual meeting of the Hospital trustees, held this afternoon, was adjourned after passing the following resolution: " This body of hospital trustees desires to express its deepest sympathy with you in your great and terrible bereavement in the loss of so good a husband and father. We feel a great man has fallen—New Zealand's greatest leader and citizen—built upon a large pattern in every sense of the word, and towering above his fellows in statesmanship and Imperial outlook. We feel he will be sadly missed from the halls of our Legislature, but in no place will he be so missed as in his house and the bosom of his family. His strenuous life and efforts for the benefit of his country will ever remain a great monument to his memory." May a kind Providence sustain you in this the greatest hour of trial and need. Yours, &c, R. H. Chinchen Secretary. Westland Charitable Aid Board. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Hokitika, 13th June, 1906. On behalf of Charitable Aid Board and many old people of Westland District, am desired convey to you heartfelt sympathy of community at your overwhelming trouble, people having nothing but most kindly feelings for you and yours in time of great trial. Arthur Clifton, Chairman. Westland Hospital Trustees, Etc. (Telegram.) Mrs. Seddon, Wellington. Hokitika, 14th June, 1906. The trustees, staff, and patients of the Westland Hospital desire to convey to yourself and family their deep sorrow and sympathy in your sad bereavement. Your loss and Westland's is a very heavy one. J. Tait, President. Westland Hospital Trustees. Dear Madam, — Revell Street, Hokitika, 10th July, 1906. I have the honour, by direction of the trustees of the Westland Hospital Board, to inform you that the following is a copy of a resolution passed last evening and recorded on the minutes of the meeting: " That this Board desires to place on record its high sense of appreciation of the devoted and distinguished services rendered to this colony and the Empire by the late Right Hon. Richard John Seddon, P.C., Prime Minister of this colony and member for this constituency, and of the loss the colony has sustained by his sudden and untimely death. The deceased statesman invariably made it his business to visit our institution when in town, often at great personal inconvenience, and his kindly sympathy and encouraging words towards the sick and afflicted on those occasions will live long in the memory of the West-Coasters. The Board is under a special debt of gratitude to our late member for his sympathetic and successful efforts in improving the position of the nursing profession in the smaller hospitals. That this Board respectfully tenders its most sincere and heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Seddon and her family in their sad bereavement." I have, &c, J. H. Wilson, Secretary. Wellington Benevolent"' Institution. Dear Captain Seddon, — Harris Street, Wellington, 12th June, 1906. The trustees of the Wellington Benevolent Institution, being one of the oldest incorporated local bodies in Wellington, desire me to inform you that a resolution was passed at to-day's meeting viz., "That they wish to'convey to Mrs. Seddon and family their sincere regret at the irreparable loss sustained by the demise of your late lamented father." I have, (fee, A. W. Purvis.

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