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must depend upon the receipts from the sales of land. I trust that it will not be necessary materially to curtail any of the contemplated expenditure under the heads Education and Immigration. With regard to the last, in the absence of any intimation to the contrary, I have assumed that it is your intention that liabilities to the amount of the vote should be incurred within this present financial period.
I cannot but reiterate my conviction that it is to a steady system of immigration, more than to any other cause, that we have to look for a restoration of prosperity to the Province.
Letters to Mr. Selfe, showing the action I have taken in accordance with your resolution of last session will be laid on the table.
You will learn from the letters of last month from the Emigration Agent how largely the difficulty of obtaining suitable immigrants has been increased by the accounts which had reached home of the massacre in Poverty Bay, and the other disastrous incidents of the Native War. I trust that the united counsels of the Colony during the approaching Session may lead to measures which will remove this obstacle to the progress of all parts of the Colony, and to the relief of the distress in which so large a number of our fellow colonists are involved.
I now declare this Council open for the dispatch of public business.
W. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.
CHRISTCHURCH:
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Press Office, Cashel street, by JOHN STEELE GUTHRIE, Official Printer for the time being to the said Government.
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1869, No 18
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Address by the Superintendent on Opening the Provincial Council
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- Selfe (Mr), Recipient of letters from the Superintendent
- W. Rolleston, Superintendent