SIR JOSEPH WARD.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13459, 4 December 1907, Page 5

SIR JOSEPH WARD.

4 VISIT. TO--AUCKLAND.'.'' Per Press Association AUCKLAND, Dec. 3. Sir Joseph Ward arrived"'this morning for the purpose of selecting one out of five of the proposed'' sites for the new Auckland post office. He will return tomorrow, bub will visit Auckland again about January. 15th. He will then remain in the; district about a monitli. In an interview Sir Joseph Ward stated that the financial crisis in America"had not affected New Zealand at aJJ. Themjllion loan for public works < had been. secured on satisfactory terms, and ;£BOO- - for the purchase of gilt-edged securilis? in London had been, obtained without; going on the Louden money market'. '■Tihe'i financial position of the ..Dominion had never been that at prweenfc. The new tariff was having a very beneficial effect on trade.. No; established industry had been affected, whiifet ah'eady three new industrial concerns were 1 , about to commence as a. result of'its operations. 'The newAucldand post office will bo erected on the railway station' site It w/il be fan, (imposing building with a. frontasre of 211 feet to Queen Street, and a dentin-"'of 150 feet. Its estimated cost is £85,000. Provision is to' be made for a, newf railway station immediately behind the post office. Sir Joseph Ward states that tho through train fare from Wellington to Auckland will be £1 19s Id first, and £1 Is 2d second-class, .ordinary; return .fares, double; single fare holiday return, £3 lis, first? "-£1 15s 6d second' claes. Tlia. carriage!? will be one- focfJ wider than tbiope now used. The trains will leave Wellington and Auckland daily a*" noon, and arrive at the. terminus at 8 o'clock next morning. / v