SIR JOSEPH WARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21053, 16 June 1930, Page 10

SIR JOSEPH WARD.

TRIBUTE BY PUBLIC SERVICE GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITIONS. (Special to Daily Tntfls.) WELLINGTON, June 15. Appreciation of the services rendered to the New Zealand public service by Sir Joseph Ward was expressed in a letter forwarded to Sir Joseph on the occasion of his resignation by Mr i Burgess, president of the Public Service Association.

“ On the even of your retirement from the position of Prime Minister,” Mr Burgess wrote, " I desire on behalf of the Public Service Association to place on record our appreciation of the many benefits which the members of the public service are enjoying to-day through, your instrumentality., There is no one who. has had the interests of the service more at heart than yourself, and the public servants of New Zealand owe you a deep debt of gratitude as the author of many statutes whicli have improved the conditions of the service. I would also like to express my thanks and appreciation of the ( courtesy with which you received the several deputations representing the Public Service Association during the past 18 months. In conclusion, we trust that your health may be so far restored as to enable you for many more years to offer to the Dominion that advice and counsel which your wide experience and statesmanlike foresight enable you above all others to give.” “ Throughout my long association With the public affairs of the Dominion,” states Sir Joseph Ward in replying, “I have at : all times endeavoured to improve the conditions of members of the public service, consistent with the state of the finances, and if I have succeeded in some measure in effecting this, then I am amply rewarded. I warmly appreciate the good wishes which you have extended on behalf of the association, and I heartily reciprocate them all.”