Allspring Utilities and High Income Fund (ERH) DEF 14A Definitive proxy

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Wells Fargo Advantage Utilities and High Income Fund

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WELLS FARGO ADVANTAGE UTILITIES AND HIGH INCOME FUND

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON DECEMBER 9, 2013

525 Market Street, 12th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF
WELLS FARGO ADVANTAGE UTILITIES AND HIGH INCOME FUND

Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") of the Wells Fargo Advantage Utilities and High Income (the "Fund") will be held on December 9, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time, at the offices of Wells Fargo Advantage Funds®, 525 Market Street, 12th Floor, San Francisco, California 94105, for the following purposes:

1. To elect three Trustees to the Board of Trustees of the Fund to serve for the term indicated herein and until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified; and

2. To transact such other business as may properly come before the Meeting or any adjournments thereof.

Shareholders of record at the close of business on October 7, 2013 will be entitled to vote at the Meeting to the extent described in the accompanying proxy statement. It is hoped that you will attend the Meeting, but if you cannot do so, please complete and sign the enclosed proxy card and return it in the accompanying envelope as promptly as possible or vote by telephone or Internet. Any shareholder attending the Meeting can vote in person even though a proxy may have already been designated by the shareholder. Instructions for the proper execution of the proxy card, as well as instructions on how to vote by telephone and Internet, are set forth at the end of the proxy statement.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE FUND UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT YOU VOTE FOR THE ELECTION OF EACH NOMINEE AS A TRUSTEE. By Order of the Board of Trustees,

C. DAVID MESSMAN
Secretary