✨ 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,
JOHN OLLIVIER,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. V.] FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1858. [No. II.
Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, Jan. 20th, 1858.
HIS Honor the Superintendent opened the Provincial Council this day with the following
ADDRESS.
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council,—
In meeting you for the first time I am happily conscious that many of the difficulties which my distinguished predecessor so anxiously struggled to overcome have entirely disappeared. I may therefore congratulate you on the prospect of a brief session, and exemption from the more laborious routine of duty that so heavily pressed upon the late Council.
You are aware that the General Assembly will shortly meet, clothed with an accession of power that will enable them to effect very material alterations in the constitution of New Zealand—alterations that might very considerably modify and restrict the legislative functions of the Provincial Councils. Contemplating the possible exercise of this power during their approaching session, and feeling in such case the great importance of this Province being fully represented, I am anxious that those gentlemen who hold seats in both the General and Provincial Legislatures shou'd have an opportunity of serving the Colony in each capacity.
The meeting of the Provincial Council in order to secure this advantage must be either prior or subsequent to the meeting of the General Assembly.
For a variety of reasons it has seemed to me expedient to call you together at this time, in order to the despatch of routine business—the enactment of one or two very short bills, and of some very simple, yet important and highly necessary amendments of the Waste Lands' Regulations. I shall also request your serious attention to a very imperative duty, namely, the making of some proper provision for the cus-
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1858, No 2
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🏘️ Address of the Superintendent to the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government20 January 1858
Provincial Council, Superintendent, General Assembly, Waste Lands Regulations, Legislation
- John Ollivier, Provincial Secretary
- The Superintendent of Canterbury