SIR JOSEPH WARD

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 71, 7 March 1930, Page 6

SIR JOSEPH WARD

RETURNING TO ROTORUA,

RUMOURS OF RESIGNATION DENIED.

Wellington, March 6.

Acting on the advice of his Cabinet colleagues the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) has decide to return to Rotorua to obtain further treatment. Sir Joseph will probably leave for the thermal centre over the week-end.

Current rumours that Sir Joseph Ward is resigning were denied yesterday. “No such change is contemplated,” was the answer given by an official in intimate touch with the Prime Minister. The following statement was. on the authority of the Prime Minister, also issued:— “The Prime Minister presided over the Cabinet meeting at Wellington on Tuesday last and great pleasure was expressed by all the Ministers nresent at the very evident benefit to his health which had resulted from the special treatment received at Rotorua “Sir Joseph Ward acknowledged the very cordial greetings of his col-

leagues and commented upon the good work accomplished by the Ministers during his absence from the capital. At the conclusion of a three hours’ meeting the Ministers unanimously requested that the Prime Minister should return to Rotorua for at least another month. Tiio benefit to Sir Joseph’s health was so marked that they were al) earnestly desirous of seeing him obtain the fullest advantage from further treatment. The Primo Minister said he was feeling really much better and in the hope of a larger measure of benefit to his health he would probably return to Rotorua at an early date.”