✨ Superintendent's Address to Provincial Council
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,
RICHARD PACKER,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. IV.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1857. [No. XIII.
Address of His Honor the Superintendent on Proroguing the Provincial Council, on Tuesday, June 30, 1857.
MR. SPEAKER, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,—
Fifteen Bills have been presented to me for my assent, of which eleven are public, and four private bills.
Of the former I have assented to eight, namely :
✓ The French Magazine Ordinance.
✓ The Scab and Catarrh Amendment Ordinance.
✓ The Education Ordinance.
✓ The Canterbury Association's Reserves' Amendment Ordinance.
✓ The Public House Amendment Ordinance.
✓ The Roads Diversion Ordinance.
✓ The Governor's Bay Road Ordinance.
✓ The Appropriation Ordinance.
Three I have reserved for the assent of His Excellency :
The Akaroa Jetty Ordinance.
The Kaiapoi Town Ordinance.
✓ The Provincial Council Extension Amendment Ordinance.
And one I have disallowed :
The Superintendent's Payment Ordinance.
Of the four private bills I have assented to two :
✓ The Inwood's Mill Ordinance, and
✓ The White's Kaiapoi Bridge Ordinance.
And the other two :
The Fuller Remission of Purchase Money Ordinance, and
Peacock's Wharf Ordinance,
I have reserved for His Excellency's assent.
I have disallowed the Superintendent's Salary Ordinance, because I find it provides for the payment of the salary of a Chaplain. It is clear that this is contrary to the intent and design of the Bill, which was to provide for payments to be made to members of the Legislature, in order to avoid the unseemliness of their having periodically to vote money to themselves. I can see no reason why the salary of any other public servant should be included in such a Bill. It may or may not be desirable on other grounds to have a Civil List created ; but I think that question ought first to be fully considered by the public ; at all events, the arguments in favor of permanently providing for any public servant are wholly different from those for provid-
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1857, No 13
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🏛️ Address of the Superintendent on Proroguing the Provincial Council
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- Richard Packer, Provincial Secretary