✨ Provincial Council Opening Address
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The Province has now the remarkable gratification of welcoming, as visitors, Lord Lyttelton and Mr. Selfe, to whom we owe many and great benefits, and whose names are so intimately bound up with all the early history of the settlement.
Gentlemen,—The convenient limits of a speech would be transgressed, were I to make more than a general notice of the leading business which it is intended to lay before you. During the session I shall endeavour to furnish you with information in detail upon the several subjects now adverted to.
In dealing with the suggestions for reforms, you will, in addition to the advantage of intimate local knowledge, bring to bear upon such subjects an intelligent observation of the condition of the other provinces of the colony, and, so far as you are enabled, adapt your own plans of reformation to the circumstances of the whole.
Trusting that your deliberations may result in great advantage to this Province and colony, I have now to declare this Council duly opened for the transaction of public business.
W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent of Canterbury.
CHRISTCHURCH:
Printed, under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Lyttelton Times Office, Gloucester Street, by Crossie Ward and William Eyre, Official Printers for the time being to the said Government.
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 8
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Governor's Address on Provincial Governance and Financial Management
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🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationProvincial Council, Financial Management, Constitutional Reform, Public Revenue, Commercial Industry, Provincial Constitution, Responsible Government, Provincial Government, Legislative Functions, Waste Lands, Public Works
- Lyttelton (Lord), Visiting dignitary
- Selfe, Visiting dignitary
- W. S. Moorhouse, Superintendent of Canterbury