✨ 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,
EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.
Vol. XVI.] FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1869. [No. XVIII.
ADDRESS
OF
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
ON
OPENING THE THIRTY-FIRST SESSION OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF CANTERBURY.
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN—
I have called you together in accordance with an understanding entered into at the time of your last session to give you an opportunity prior to the meeting of the General Assembly of discussing alterations in the Roads Ordinance, the Fencing Ordinance, and some other Ordinances which require modification.
A Bill will also be submitted to you for the reduction of the present number of the Members of the Provincial Council and the redistribution of the representation of the Province. The reasons for the introduction of this measure require some explanation on my part. I believe that the time has come when considerable modifications must be made in the form and dimensions of Provincial Institutions if they are to continue their local usefulness and the weight in the general economy of the colony which it is desirable they
Vol. XVI., No. 18.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1869, No 18
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🏘️ Address by the Superintendent on Opening the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentProvincial Council, Roads Ordinance, Fencing Ordinance, Redistribution of Representation
- Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary
- Edward Jollie, Provincial Secretary