“ONE OF DOMINION’S GREATEST SONS.”
LORD BLEDISLOE MAKES FEELING REFERENCES. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 8. “New Zealand has today lost one of her greatest sons, and the Empire its senior outstanding statesman,” said the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, in referring, at the opening of the Winter Show to-day, to the death of Sir Joseph Ward. “It is early yet to assess at its true value his public work for the country he loved so well and served so faithfully,” said his Excellency, “but on this day of his passing from our midst we may acknowledge without dissentient voice his untiring and unselfish devotion to duty, his staunch Imperialism, and his brilliant and creative statesmanship.
“At this industrial exhibition it may appropriately be added that his experience as an industrialist enhanced his value as a statesman during the period of this young country’s industrial juvenescence. At the close of a life of strenuous work for the public good we may all join with his co-religionists in saying ‘Requiescat in Pace’ (‘May He Rest in Peace’).”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19117, 9 July 1930, Page 5
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