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AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
VOL. XXIV.] FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1875. [No. 19.
Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 16th April, 1875.
THE following Correspondence which has passed between His Honour the Superintendent and the Honourable the Colonial Secretary is published, by direction of the Superintendent, for general information.
VINCENT E. RICE,
For the Provincial Secretary.
(No. 1.)
Government Buildings,
March 25, 1875.
The Governor will be advised to make the usual delegation of power under the Goldfields and other Acts to your Honor. The Orders in Council can be published in the next Gazette.
DANIEL POLLEN.
(No. 2.)
Auckland, 25th March, 1875.
In the event of my accepting delegations, I have become aware that a large expenditure will be necessary in connection with new Goldfields to provide roads, bridges, and other necessary public works. No revenue will be received by the Province on account of Ohinemuri for a considerable time to come, and it will be necessary that such works should be undertaken forthwith. I understand that some of the works have been already begun. Will the Colonial Government place funds at my disposal for this purpose? The Hauraki district does not appear, up to the present time, to have had its just share of the loan monies set apart by the Assembly for roads and works in the North Island.
I consider also that, to enable me to carry out these delegations, the Police Force should be restored to Provincial control. Will the Colonial Government do this?
G. GREY.
(No. 3.)
Government Buildings,
March 27, 1875.
There are no funds which can be placed at your Honor’s disposal for expenditure on Public Works at Ohinemuri, other than those which have already been granted in aid of Provincial Revenue by the General Assembly. Under the “Public Works Advances Act, 1874,” sixty-five thousand pounds have been authorised to be paid; and under Part 5 of the “Immigration and Public Works Act, 1874,” a sum of Fifty thousand pounds is authorised to be expended in and about works on the Thames Gold Fields. Your Honor will be able, I hope, to find in these supplies the means of carrying on necessary works on the new Goldfields at Ohinemuri.
The question of restoring the Police Force to Provincial control is one which the Colonial Government cannot determine. Your Honor will, I think, find that the Auckland Provincial Council has persistently, on many occasions, negatived a similar proposal.
I have replied thus at length by telegram to your Honor’s message, in order to avoid the delay of the course of post; as I am anxious that the question of the delegation of power should, in the interest of the new Goldfield, be speedily settled.
DANIEL POLLEN.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1875, No 19
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🏛️ Correspondence between Provincial Superintendent and Colonial Secretary
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration16 April 1875
Goldfields, Public Works, Police Force, Delegation of Power, Provincial Revenue
- G. Grey (His Honour), Provincial Superintendent
- Daniel Pollen, Colonial Secretary
- Vincent E. Rice, Provincial Secretary