Ward, Sir Joseph

Ward, Sir Joseph

▪ prime minister of New Zealand
born April 26, 1856, Melbourne
died July 8, 1930, Wellington, N.Z.

      New Zealand statesman, prime minister (1906–12, 1928–30), and a key member of the Liberal Party ministries from 1891 to 1906, noted for his financial, social welfare, and postal measures.

      Ward established a successful grain trade in Invercargill, N.Z., in 1877 and soon became prominent in local politics, gaining a seat in Parliament in 1887. When the Liberal Party took office in 1891 under John Ballance, he became postmaster general and added the post of minister of finance in the succeeding ministry of Richard John Seddon (1893–1906). Ward was responsible for legislation creating state guarantee for the Bank of New Zealand (1894), the Advances to Settlers Act (1894), penny postage service (1901), and a retirement plan for railroad employees (1902). He floated large overseas loans to finance the social welfare measures of the Liberal ministries from 1891 to 1906. In 1901, the year that he was knighted, he established what is considered to have been the world's first ministry of public health.

      Ward's major domestic accomplishments as prime minister from 1906 to 1912 were the National Provident Fund, the Defence Act (1910), and the widows' pensions bill (1911). He was an advocate of greater unity within the British Empire and increased New Zealand's contribution to the Royal Navy. He led the Liberal Party in a coalition (1915–19) with Prime Minister W.F. Massey, in which he again led the post office and finance ministries and accompanied Massey to meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet and to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

      After a six-year absence from national politics (1919–25), he returned to Parliament in 1925 and became prime minister in 1928 as head of the United Party, the new name of the Liberal Party. Failing health forced his retirement from leadership in May 1930.

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