✨ 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 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. XIV.] FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1867. [No. XXXII.
ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT,
On Opening the XXVIIth Session of the Provincial Council, June 7th, 1867.
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL:
Gentlemen,—I have found it necessary to call you together at this period for reasons which must be obvious to you.
The annual session of the General Assembly was convened for the 29th of this month at the time my proclamation of your meeting was made, and it was my desire that the meetings of the two Legislatures should not in any measure clash.
I regret that the depression which has existed throughout the Province for the last three years has not received any alleviation during the period which has elapsed since I last had the pleasure of addressing you.
You will join with me in congratulations to the Province and to the Colony at large upon the successful junction of the faces of the tunnel connecting the Port and Plains.
I shall ask your consideration of a plan for bridging the River Rakaia. Enquiry into the subject convinces me that the difficulties attendant upon such an undertaking have been much over-rated, and I would urge upon the Council the necessity of entering upon this work in order to relieve a want very much felt by settlers in the central part of the Province.
In accordance with the Resolution passed at your last Session, I have caused a reconnaissance survey to be made of the country through which a line of railway to the West Coast should be carried, and I have the gratification of informing you that I am advised that a perfectly practicable line can be made. Commencing from Horsley Down, the distance to Hokitika is about 100 miles, and the estimated cost of the line, exclusive of rolling stock, would be at the rate of about £6,000 per mile.
Though at present this undertaking may be far beyond the means at our disposal, yet the information and knowledge of the country obtained during the survey not only have an important present value, but will be of the greatest utility in the future, when the natural development of the resources of the Province shall warrant our proceeding with the work.
Vol. 14.—No. 32.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1867, No 32
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🏘️ Address of His Honor the Superintendent to the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government7 June 1867
Provincial Council, Address, Infrastructure, Railway, Tunnel, Bridge
- F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary