Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1866 – No. 74

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✨ Provincial Council Address

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,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XIII.] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1866. [No. LXXIV.

ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT,

On Opening the Twenty-sixth Session of the Provincial Council.

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council:—

I regret that unavoidable circumstances have postponed your meeting to an inconvenient season of the year.

The General Assembly was in session before the provincial elections were completed, and it appeared to me advisable to delay calling you together until after the rising of the Colonial Parliament.

The Council has derived from the late proceedings of the Assembly an instructive experience preliminary to its own labours, and is now able to measure with some accuracy its financial resources for the year ending June, 1867.

The matters I have to lay before you this session, so far as I am at present advised, will embrace no novel propositions. I shall only request your attention to very few legislative measures, beyond the granting of ordinary supplies, intending shortly to summon you to a more protracted session, prompt administrative action being at this season very much called for in various outlying portions of the province, particularly on the goldfields; on this, among other grounds, I am very desirous that the present should be as brief a session as is consistent with a deliberate consideration of emergent business.

It will be necessary to agree upon resolutions suggesting amendments by the General Assembly of the waste lands regulations in the matter of pre-emptive rights, and in some other less important particulars.

Vol. 13.—No. 74.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 74

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🏛️ Address of the Superintendent to the Provincial Council

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated19 October 1866
KeywordsProvincial Council, Address, Legislative Measures, Financial Resources, Goldfields
👩‍💼 Officials

F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary

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