✨ Provincial Council Prorogation Speech
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,
For the Provincial Secretary,
T. B. KEELE,
Chief Clerk.
VOL. II.] SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1855. [No. XII.
His Honor THE SUPERINTENDENT PROROGUED THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL THIS DAY WITH THE FOLLOWING SPEECH:—
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council:
Whatever disappointment I may have felt that this session should have come to a close, and that several questions of importance should still remain unsettled, still, when I consider that two of the most difficult and embarrassing subjects which could have been presented for your solution—the management of the Waste Lands, and the settlement of the affairs of the Canterbury Association—have been disposed of in a manner which cannot but prove satisfactory to the people and beneficial to the Province, and that enquiry and deliberation on these matters has occupied a much longer time than any other subjects would have required, I cannot but acquiesce in the necessity of postponing to a future session the consideration of other questions upon which legislation is urgently needed.
You have requested me to unite with you in recommending to his Excellency the Governor an elaborate scheme for the disposal and management of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province. Without committing myself to an unqualified approval, in all their details, of the Regulations which you have adopted, still, believing that they are based on the principles I ventured to express at the opening of the session, that they are generally acceptable to the people, and that they are eminently calculated to advance the prosperity of the Province, I need not say I will cordially concur in your recommendation to his Excellency for their publication according to law; and that I will do all that lies in my power to secure their being brought into immediate and efficient operation.
Considering that the Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zealand are charged with certain general liabilities, in the form of a percentage on the price for which they are sold, I entirely agree in the conclusion
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1855, No 12
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🏛️ Prorogation Speech by the Superintendent
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration10 July 1855
Provincial Council, Prorogation, Waste Lands, Canterbury Association
- T. B. Keele, Chief Clerk