PRIME MINISTER’S HEALTH
TOUR OF DOMINION IN SIGHT
NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO COUNTRY.
FINANCIAL SITUATION HOPEFUL.
By Telegraph.—Press Association,
Wellington, Last Night. "I am glad to say I am well on the road to complete recovery; soon I hope to be able to travel New Zealand to shake the hands of my friends,” said, the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, to-night- in the course of a new year message broadcast from his Heretaunga residence by station 2YA Wellington. “I want to thank the people of NewZealand for their sympathy and kindness to me during my illness,” added Sir Joseph. "Inquiries have been made from all parts of New Zealand and from friends in all political parties so that I, as Prime Minister, do not consider I represent one party but that 1 represent the people of New Zealand aa a whole.
"I am pleased to say,” Sir Joseph stated, “that the finances of the country have kept np well, ami it- fills one with hope that at the end of the year •we will have a credit balance irrespective of the unusual and heavy expenditure that lias occurred on account of the earthquake and unemployment, both of which have been assisted largely from loan money.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1930, Page 8
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