HOPES SOON TO TRAVEL DOMINION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 3 January 1930, Page 16

HOPES SOON TO TRAVEL DOMINION.

SIR J. G. WARD WELL ON ROAD TO RECOVERY. (Special to the “Star.”) WELLINGTON. January 2. “1 am glad to say I am well on the road to complete recovery, and soon I hope to be able to travel New Zealand to shake the hands of my many friends.” said the Prime Minister (the Rt lion Sir Joseph Ward) to-night in the course of a New’ Year’s message broadcast from his Ileretaunga home by station 2YA, Wellington. “I want to thank the people of New Zealand 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 at that. I, as Prime Minister, do not consider I represent one party, but that I represent the people of New’ Zealand as a whole.” A brief though optimistic reference to the country’s finances was made by the Prime Minister in the course of his message. “I am pleased to say,” Sir Joseph stated, “that the finances of the country have kept tip well, and 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 has occurred on account of the earthquake and unemployment, both of which have been assisted largely from loan moneys.”