Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1856 – No. 11

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✨ Provincial Council Address

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,
JOSEPH BRITTAN,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. III.] SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1856. [No. XI.

Provincial Council Chamber,
23rd May, 1856.

Address of His Honor the Superinten
dent on closing the Provincial Coun
cil this day.

“The Superintendent though rapidly
recovering from a long and severe
illness regrets that he is still unable to
attend the Provincial Council for the
purpose of proroguing it in person.

The Superintendent has assented in
the name and on behalf of the Governor
to the following Ordinances :—

The English Agent’s Ordinance,
Sess. VI, No. 1 :
The Road’s Ordinance, Sess. VI,
No. 2:
The Public House Ordinance,
Sess. VI, No. 3 :
The Appropriation Ordinance,
Sess. VI, No. 4:

and will also recommend to his
Excellency to issue the additional
Regulations for the sale of Land which
have been passed by the Council.

The Superintendent cannot but
express his great regret that the
Council should have been compelled to
separate without settling other ques
tions of great importance, especially
without providing some immediate
remedy for the great injury done to
the roads by trailing timber upon
them. The absence of some such
remedy will cost the Province a consi
derable sum of money in repairs which
might have been rendered needless.

The Superintendent also regrets that
his illness should have prevented him
again urging on the Council the need
of providing for the education of the
people. He had hoped that Canter
bury would have taken the lead in a
question of this nature ; but he regrets
to find that it will be one of the last
of the Provinces to provide for the
civilization of its inhabitants.

The Superintendent will take care
that the sums voted by the Council
shall be expended with care and
economy so far as the funds in his
hands will admit ; but he desires that
in order to avoid disappointment, it
should be borne in mind, that the
Council has voted a much larger ex
penditure than the estimated revenue
of the year will cover. Should the
revenues therefore not exceed the
estimate, much of the work contem
plated by the Council must remain
undone.

(Signed)
JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD,
SUPERINTENDENT.
23rd May, 1856.”

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