THE WARD ASSOCIATION.
(BY TELEGBAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Inviscabgill/, this day. Mr -J..G.. Wasd and Mr A. Lee-Smith addressed a crowded meeting in the theatre lasb night). Mr Ward dealt with hie traasactiona with the Colonial Bank, and asserted that the famou3 £30,000 draft againsb oats was retired by cash. He spoke at great length against the local morning paper and political enemies. Mr Lee Smith narrated the circumstances that; led up to the offer to purchase the liabilities of the J. G. Ward Association from the liquidators of the Colonial Bank. Both gentlemen's statements were well received, and Mr Ward was frequently applauded. A vote of thaaks to the latter and an expression of unabated confidence, and Shaaks te Mr Lee-Smith was carried unanimously.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 158, 7 July 1896, Page 8
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