MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY
PRIME MINISTER'S I'ELBQ&AKT.
Immediately on hearing the sad news tho Prime Minister dispatched tho following telegram to the chairman of the Town Board, Upper Hiit*:-~"I hare just heard with the dcopest regret .isi tlio deplorable fatality which ■ occurred at Upper Hutt yesterday iaotuing, Pleaso convoy to the relatives oJr 'tlio deceased my siiicero sympatlty iji tlieif bereavement. It will soften tlie bjqw which has fallen to know that whose lives have been saefiflced died doing their duty.—W\ F, Mas^ey." The following message has irefln. forwarded to Mrs. Comesky by tho J?ost~ master-General (Hon. E. Heaton Ebodes): — ,: On behalf of , bt.yself and thn officers of the Post and 'Jelegraph Department, I'desire to convey to yoti our profound sympathy ii] . tJio deep affliction v.hich .has befailfi! you ; and your family in the awful disaster at Upper Hutt, whereby your husband so suddenly met his death... I;ii,th«s of the 'late Mr. Comesky, tho Puttie Service of ,tho Dominion, has lost a faithful and efficient servant, and Ms fellow- officers a friend whom they heM in the highest esteem."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2112, 1 April 1914, Page 8
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178MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2112, 1 April 1914, Page 8
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