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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD,
Superintendent.
Vol. I.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1853. [No. IV.
Superintendent’s Office,
Christchurch, Dec. 7, 1853.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication, for general information, of the following Proceedings of the Provincial Council during the first Session thereof.
EDWARD PUCKLE,
Private Secretary.
To His Honor James Edward Fitz Gerald, Esqr., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury.
SIR,
The Provincial Council take an early opportunity of addressing your Honor on the speech with which you were pleased to inaugurate their proceedings.
They will not attempt to enter at length into the numerous and important questions which have been raised in that communication. It is obvious that on the greater part of them, any decided expression of opinion, would be at present premature and uncalled for.
The Council wish to record their entire approbation of the course you have pursued in convening them at this early period. They consider indeed that this was a matter of imperious necessity; for they would have deprecated most earnestly either the...
appropriation of the Provincial Revenue without lawful authority, or the adopting the only remaining alternative, that of impairing public credit by a general suspension of payments.
It affords the Council much satisfaction to observe, that the impressions which they had themselves entertained as to the progress of the Settlement in wealth and prosperity, are confirmed by the authenticated statements which your Honor has been enabled to lay before them.
They will take into their early and most serious consideration the various measures which you have caused to be prepared, for placing the Government of the Province upon an efficient and well defined footing. They fully appreciate the exertions which have led to these measures being laid upon the Council Table at this early period.
It is highly satisfactory to the Council to learn, that the Revenue of this Province, after contributing its due proportion towards defraying the expenses of the General Government, is still sufficient for the proper maintenance of the Provincial Establishments. But they regret that there are as yet no funds available for purposes of immigration, for the repair of Roads, and for various other public works which are highly essential to the material progress of this Province.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1853, No 4
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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government7 December 1853
Provincial Council, Proceedings, Public Notifications
- James Edward Fitz Gerald (Superintendent), Superintendent of Canterbury
- James Edward Fitz Gerald, Superintendent
- Edward Puckle, Private Secretary
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- James Edward Fitz Gerald (Superintendent), Addressed by Provincial Council