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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,
THOMAS WILLIAM MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.
| VOL. VIII. | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1861. | [No. XXVII.
ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
On Opening the Provincial Council on Tuesday, October 22, 1861.
MR. SPEAKER, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL,—
IN opening this, the first session of the third Provincial Council of Canterbury, it is my privilege to state to you that the general condition of the Province is eminently prosperous.
Commerce and agriculture are alike steadily advancing, while the products of our splendid natural pastures are rapidly swelling the value of our exports.
Our revenues are abundantly equal to the age and present necessities and engagements of the Province; indeed, at no period since the advent of the first settlers has there existed such just cause for present contentment, or such manifestly solid ground upon which to base calculations for the future.
The past year has added greatly to our scanty knowledge of the vast field of unexplored subterranean resources.
The labours of science have disclosed the presence in the Province of considerable mineral treasures.
As these latter are gradually developed, so also will be sufficiently established new centres of settlement and labour, and fresh fields for the exertion of private capital in divers public enterprises, such as the construction of branch railways, and other kindred aids to the development of that active commerce which is the truest test of national health.
During this session I hope to be in possession of such information relative to discoveries of coal as may justify my inviting your assistance in devising some means for immediately acquiring the great benefits that ought to result from such a discovery.
To this end I shall probably request your co-operation in an endeavour to induce the employment of private capital under such conditions as will harmonize with a concurrent expenditure of public monies.
The accounts of the past financial year I shall cause to be immediately submitted to you.
You will be gratified to find that there remains a general balance in the Treasury amounting on the whole to near £30,000; and I am advised that there exists a reasonable prospect of the recent and present rate of revenue being steadily maintained.
You will therefore be in a position to sanction a very considerable outlay in the improvement of the country—present pros-
VOL. 8, NO. 27.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1861, No 27
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🏘️ Address of His Honor the Superintendent on opening the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentProvincial Council, Canterbury, Superintendent, Opening Address, Prosperity, Commerce, Agriculture, Mineral resources, Coal, Treasury balance
- Thomas William Maude, Provincial Secretary