MR WILFORD'S ILLNESS.
WELLINGTON, December 22. In proposing: the toast of Mr Wilford's health at a complimentary social* last nighty Mr. R. Fletcher ' said -,|-hat the time Ms now approaching when further honours should be heaped upon him. Replying, Mr Wilford said that the worst part of his public life came that day when he had been informed by his medical advisers that lie would be unable to-take'office if it were offered him. He had been eighteen years getting where he was politically, so it came hard. He believed, however, that m a few. monthe h© would be wholly recovered. He had hesitated whether to resign or not, but before he went abroad he would leave a signed nomination paper behind and leave himself m the' electors' hands. If he returned without health, he would immediately resign. .
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8257, 23 December 1911, Page 5
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137MR WILFORD'S ILLNESS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8257, 23 December 1911, Page 5
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