✨ Provincial Council Opening 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. XV. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1868. No. VIII.
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL—
Circumstances have prevented your being called together as early as I had wished. I was advised that an earlier Session would have been inconvenient to many of your number on account of its occurrence during the harvest and sheep shearing.
My desire for an earlier Session may be referred to the altered circumstances of the province, partly caused by the recent legislation of the General Assembly, as well as by the depression which has lately weighed so heavily upon every branch of productive industry.
It is matter for the profoundest regret that this province, in common with the greater part of the Middle Island, has been visited by very unexpected and disastrous inundations, causing damage to an extent never before experienced. Except for this cause, I had hoped to have been able at this time to offer my congratulations on a very much improved condition of the agricultural interest.
Measures have been taken to ascertain the damage sustained by public and private property throughout all the flooded districts; so that a report may be presently laid before you for your guidance in ordering repairs of public works, and, within your available resources, in some degree relieving urgent private distresses.
It is not for me in this place to remark at any length on the torpidity of our commerce, or to recommend your attempting direct legislative remedies; neither on the other
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 8
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🏛️ Opening Address to Provincial Council by Governor
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationProvincial Council, Governance, Address, Canterbury Province, Disaster Relief, Economic Depression
- F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary