✨ Provincial Council Prorogation Speech
counts for the half year, which will shortly be published, will show that by a careful economy, the expenditure has been brought within the estimates, whilst the revenue has exceeded them. The great increase of public business thrown upon myself, especially by the establishment of departments of Public Works, Immigration, and Education, renders it absolutely necessary to have the assistance of a Provincial Secretary. I have to thank you for the readiness with which you have voted the funds requisite for that office.
Gentlemen, you are aware that it will be my duty to proceed shortly to Auckland to attend in my place at the meeting of the General Assembly; for this contingency you made sufficient provision in the first Empowering Ordinance, which His Excellency has disallowed; so far as I am able under the difficulty which has thus been created, I have provided for the service of the Government by authorising the Provincial Secretary, in all matters to act in my behalf so far as he is empowered by law. Owing to the establishment of steam communication, I do not anticipate that my absence will be of long duration. Your attendance will probably be necessary shortly after my return to deal with questions which will have arisen out of the laws passed by the General Assembly. I therefore declare this Council to stand prorogued till Tuesday, the third day of October next.
(Signed) JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD,
Superintendent.
April 12th, 1854.
PRINTED BY L. SHAW MPTON, AT THE "TIMES" OFFICE, LYTTLETON.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1854, No 11
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Speech of the Superintendent on Prorogation
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration12 April 1854
Provincial Council, Immigration, Education, Public Works, Waste Lands
- JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD, Superintendent