✨ Provincial Council Proceedings
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.
By His Honor’s command,
H. G. GOULAND, Provincial Secretary.
Vol. I.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1854. [No. XI.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 22nd April, 1854.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the following Proceedings of the Provincial Council during the second Session thereof.
H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.
Address of His Honor the Superintendent to the Provincial Council, delivered on the 15th February.
GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL,
At your first Session your labours were principally directed to those preliminary measures which were deemed necessary in order to establish the Provincial Executive Government upon an efficient and permanent footing. On the present occasion your attention will be directed to questions more immediately bearing on the social well-being of the Province. I regret that it should have been necessary to call you together after so short a recess, but two reasons will, I am sure, justify this step: first, because there is a necessity for some immediate legislation upon several subjects, especially the law of trespass, public works, and immigration; and secondly, because it will probably be found most convenient for public business that the annual Session of your Council should take place about this season, so that the public accounts of the Province may be laid before you, as soon as they can be made up after the conclusion of each year, and that the estimates may be voted for the service of each year as soon after the commencement of the same as possible.
Having on a former occasion explained at considerable length the policy which I proposed to pursue, it is unnecessary that I should detain you by any detailed explanation of the measures which will be now laid before you, and which have been framed with a view to carry out that policy. The Bill for the amendment of the law of trespass which was under your consideration at the conclusion of last Session will, with some modifications, be again submitted to you. A law will be proposed for the purpose of enabling the inhabitants of particular districts to make and keep in repair roads and other works of public utility, and to raise rates for the purpose. The necessity for some such provision has been recognised in other Provinces of the Colony, where laws, with objects similar to that which will be proposed to you, have been passed. Your attention will also be asked to a Bill for establishing a general system of education for the Province.
Statements will be laid before you in reference to the revenue and expenditure of the Province for the quarter ending the 31st of December.
The expectation that the sum of three hundred pounds would be received from the General Government at the commencement of the financial year as set down in the estimates, has not been realized. Upon
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🏘️ Publication of Provincial Council Proceedings
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- H. G. Goulard, Provincial Secretary
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- H. G. Goulard, Provincial Secretary