Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

General Government Offices,
Auckland, 8th April, 1876.

SIR,—

I have received your Honor’s letter of date April 5th, instant.

The real subject of the correspondence which has recently passed is contained in your letter of date February 7th, in which your Honor requests me “to move His Excellency the Governor to sanction the expenditure of about £1,200 for two most necessary public works North of Auckland.” These works are a wharf at Mangapai, to cost £800, and a wharf at Matakana, to cost £400.

You proposed to pay for these works out of the unexpended balance (£4,000) of the sum of £40,000 authorised to be advanced to the Province of Auckland by “The Provincial Public Works Advances Act, 1874.”

Later in the same month the question of providing means of alleviating the temporary distress amongst the unemployed at the Thames was mooted, and it was then suggested that the £4,000 might be made available for that purpose; to this your Honor’s assent was given by letter of date 22nd February.

With reference to the last-mentioned letter, I asked you on the 28th February whether you still desired to have the expenditure for the wharves authorised, to which you replied on the following day, recommending the appropriation of £2,000 out of the balance of £4,000, to specified works in the Thames district, and, in answer to the direct question, your Honor said, “With regard to that part of your letter referring to the proposed expenditure upon wharves at Mangapai and Matakana, I am still of opinion that these works would be of great public utility, and I should be much obliged by His Excellency the Governor being advised to assent to the expenditure proposed.”

I have desired thus to disentangle this matter, which is of a purely administrative and financial character, from the political and constitutional questions, arising out of your Honor’s mistake as to the meaning of section 27 of “The Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875,” with which in the subsequent correspondence it has been overlaid and confused, and I now communicate to your Honor the decision arrived at, which is, that the expenditure of £800 for the construction of a wharf at Mangapai, and of £400 for the construction of a wharf at Matakana, cannot be approved. There has not been any legal appropriation for either work by the Auckland Provincial Council; the provisions of the Public Works Advances Act, 1874, have not been complied with in respect to them, or indeed to any past expenditure of that advance, and there is, I regret to find, no ground to hope that the revenues of this Province, receivable before the 30th September next, shall so exceed the expenditure by law chargeable thereon, as to bring the case within the view of section 4 of the Provincial Appropriation Extension Act, by which the Governor is authorised to consent to expenditure of a surplus.

Your Honor, I hope, will not think me wanting in consideration if I abstain from noticing in detail the constitutional questions raised in your letter now under reply. It appears to me that the Parliament of the Colony is the proper place for such discussions, and that they are not germane to the question whether or not, as I have before said, your Honor should be authorised to construct two wharves for which there has been no lawful appropriation by the Provincial Council, and for which there is no money.

I have, &c.,

DANIEL POLLEN.

His Honor the Superintendent,
Auckland.

ADDITIONAL LICENSES TO KILL GAME.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 10th May, 1876.

ADDITIONAL Licenses to Kill Game have been issued to the undermentioned persons, in accordance with the provisions of “The Protection of Animals Act, 1873.”

READER WOOD,
Provincial Secretary.

240. Colonel A. B. Steinberger, Auckland.
241. William Earl, Auckland.
242. C. C. Wood, Hamilton.
243. James W. H. Wood, Hamilton.
244. Hugh Reynolds, Mongonui.
245. Richard Cossell, ,,
246. George Wrathall, ,,
247. Henry Hart, Papakura.
248. J. H. Witheford, St. George’s Bay.
249. Henry Steele, Hamilton.
250. J. R. Hill, Auckland.
251. Richard Hill, ,,
252. F. Hill, ,,
253. C. W. Lawson, ,,
254. H. McQuade, ,,
255. R. M. Morten, ,,

ADDITIONAL LICENSES TO SELL GAME.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 10th May, 1876.

ADDITIONAL Licenses to Sell Game have been issued to the undermentioned persons, in accordance with the provisions of “The Protection of Animals Act, 1873.”

READER WOOD,
Provincial Secretary.

3. John Allen, Auckland Market.
4. William Head, Auckland Market.

AUCTIONEERS’ LICENSES.

Provincial Treasury,
Auckland, 10th May, 1876.

THE following is a List of persons to whom Auctioneers’ Licenses have been issued up to the present date for the year ending 14th April, 1877.

R. B. LUSK,
Acting Provincial Treasurer.

TOWN.

Arthur, Richard, Auckland
Binney, George William, Auckland
Buckland, Alfred, Auckland
Buckland, John Segar, Auckland
Carr, Robert Charles, Auckland
Dacre, James Marwell, Auckland
Eaton, Levi W., Auckland
Grant, Alexander Gray, Auckland
Greenwood, Robert Charles, Auckland
Hunter, William, Auckland
Isaacs, Alfred Edward, Auckland
Jones, Morton, Auckland
Sibbin, George, Auckland
Tonks, Benjamin, Auckland

COUNTRY.

Bates, Stewart, Opotiki
Binney, Edwin, Grahamstown