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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 Signatures, 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,
EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XII.] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1865. [No. LXIV.
ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
On Opening the Provincial Council,
Tuesday, November 21, 1865.
Mr. SPEAKER, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,--
I have to congratulate you on meeting for the first time in a building in every way worthy of the purpose to which it has been devoted, and which will, I trust, be found not only to afford suitable accommodation for the transaction of business, but will also be an object of ornament to this city, and a credit to Canterbury for the future.
I had hoped, when I last prorogued this Council, that I should have been able to call you again together before the expiration of the three months for which you voted supplies; as, however, the Session of the General Assembly has been protracted beyond that time, and as it is essential to the proper consideration of the affairs of this Province that you should have before you the results of the deliberations of that body, I have thought that I should be acting more in accordance with the interests of the Province, as well as with the spirit of the arrangement come to on this subject during the last Session of the Council, if I deferred the ordinary Session until all the available information could be obtained as to the exact position of the Province, more especially in a financial point of view.
Full information will be laid before you as to the state of the Provincial Revenue. You will observe that making due allowance for the depression which has prevailed in the Colony generally, the resources of this Province are in a satisfactory condition; while its credit appears to stand higher in the London market than that of any other Province in New Zealand. I attribute this latter result in no small degree to the vigilant control which you have exercised over the expenditure, and the earnest determination which you have manifested to make punctual provision for the claims of the public creditor.
Correspondence will be laid before you between a member of my Government and the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, in reference to the arrangements contemplated by the General Government, with regard to the proportion of the Customs' Revenue, payable to the Provinces. The Colonial Secretary appears to anticipate no diminution of the share hitherto received, and we may therefore hope that, unless some unforeseen emergency
Vol. 12.--No. 64.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1865, No 64
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