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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.
By His Honor’s command,
JOSEPH BRITTAN,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. III.] SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1856. [No. VI.]
ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT TO THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL, FEBRUARY 28, 1856.
The Superintendent regrets that he is prevented by illness from addressing the Provincial Council in person on the present occasion.
The Superintendent has called the Council together earlier than was previously arranged, in consequence of the near approach of the period at which the General Assembly is convened, and in order that the business of the Session might be disposed of, so as to enable those gentlemen who are members of it to proceed to Auckland without being interrupted in the discharge of their duties in this Council.
The same consideration has guided the Government in the amount of business they intend to bring forward this Session. The time at their disposal being so limited they have confined their measures to those which are of pressing importance, so that they may receive mature deliberation; postponing for a time others of less pressing necessity.
The Superintendent has directed two Bills to be laid before the Council referring to Public Roads. One to provide for the construction and repair of Roads and Drains throughout the Province; and the other for the Prevention of Offences on Roads. These Bills appear to the Superintendent to be imperatively called for. In framing them the objects sought to be accomplished are to divide the Province into Districts to enable the inhabitants of those Districts to elect Waywardens, who will act generally under the supervision of the Provincial Engineer—and to enable them by voluntary self-rating to obtain the means for making and repairing Roads when the Government may not be in a position from want of funds to perform the required work. The Superintendent hopes these measures will meet with the approval of the Council, and invites their careful deliberation on their details to render them as complete as possible.
The Superintendent has also thought another Bill imperatively called for—a Bill to place the law regulating the licensing of Public Houses, and the sale
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1856, No 6
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🏛️ Address of His Honor the Superintendent to the Provincial Council
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration28 February 1856
Provincial Council, Address, Superintendent, Legislation, Roads, Public Houses
- Joseph Brittan, Provincial Secretary