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Staff and Children of School for the Deaf. (Telegram.) The Acting-Premier, Wellington. Sumner, 11th June, 1906. Please convey to Mrs. Seddon and family sympathy of staff and children of School for Deaf. Stevens. Teachers, Pupils, and Residents of Taerua. (Telegram.) Hon. the Acting-Premier, Wellington. Taerua, 12th June, 1906. Teachers, pupils, and people deplore the death of Mr. Seddon. Daly, Headmaster, Public School. Taradale School Committee. (Telegram.) Hon. Mr. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier, Wellington. Taradale, 16th June, 1906. From Taradale School Committee. —Hon. Sir, —Accept the expressions of our keen sorrow at the overwhelming loss the nation has sustained. The untimely death of the great leader has left an inheritance, a policy, and an unsurpassed example of broad humanity yvhich marks him as one of the benefactors of men. Convey to Mrs. Seddon the expression of our deepest sympathy in her grief. George Ridley, Secretary. Taranaki Education Board. Sir,— New Plymouth, 29th June, 1906. I have the honour, by direction of the Board, to forward you a copy of a resolution carried at the meeting held on the 26th instant: " That this Board desires to place on record its sympathy with Mrs. Seddon and her family on the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, late Premier and Minister of Education, and its appreciation of those Acts that have been passed for the benefit of education; and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mrs. Seddon and to the Acting Minister of Education." I have, <&c, The Hon. Acting Minister of Education, Wellington. P. S. Whitcombe, Secretary. Taranaki Teachers' Institute. (Telegram.) Acting-Premier, Wellington. Opunake, 15th June, 1906. Please convey to Mrs. Seddon and family the sincere sympathy of the Taranaki teachers. Alfred Grey, Hon. Secretary. Te Mata School Committee. Sir,— Te Mata, 14th June, 1906. At the meeting of the Te Mata School Committee held to-day I was instructed to forward the following resolution : " That the Committee expresses its great regret at the death of the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, and also its sense of the great loss the Government has suffered by the decease of such a great statesman of the Empire. Education and the colony's children have lost their best friend. The Committee further expresses to Mrs. Seddon and the members of the family its deepest sympathy with them in their irreparable loss." Yours, &c, The Hon. Hall-Jones, Acting-Premier, Wellington. W. Morgan Danhard, Chairman. Temuka Technical Classes Association. Dear Sir,— Temuka, 4th July, 1906. At the last meeting of the Board of Managers of the Temuka Technical Classes Association I was instructed to respectfully convey the following resolution to you : " That this Board sincerely regrets the great loss sustained by the colony through the untimely death of the Premier, the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, who, as Minister of Education, did such great service in the encouragement of educational progress throughout New Zealand; and, further, this Board desires to express to the members of the late statesman's family its sympathy in their sudden bereavement." I am, &c, Hon. W. Hall-Jones. Alf. A. Hintz, Director. Maori School Committee and Children, Arowhenua Pa, Temuka. Dear Sir, — June, 1906. Please convey to Mrs. Seddon and family our very deepest sympathy and regret in their sad bereavement. Yours, &c, The Hon. Acting' Minister of Education, Wellington. Francis Barrett, Chairman.

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