✨ Superintendent's Address
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Vol. XVI. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1869. No. XLV.
ADDRESS
OF
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
ON
OPENING THE THIRTY-SECOND SESSION OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF CANTERBURY.
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN—
In opening the last ordinary session of the present Provincial Council, though it is not my privilege to be able to congratulate you upon a return of that progressive prosperity which marked the early growth of the Province, I feel that the present is an occasion when, amidst all the difficulties which surround us, we cannot but look hopefully to the future.
When the present Council first met, the financial depression which has since weighed so heavily upon us had set in not only in this, but in all the Australian Colonies. Its severity was enhanced in our case by a variety of causes. The discovery of Goldfields in the neighbouring provinces had raised expectations and induced a speculative spirit which caused the reaction to be more painfully felt; to the difficulties of a wide spread commercial crisis where superadded those of a native war, involving large and extravagant expenditure, the provision for which has hitherto mainly devolved upon the people of this island, and during the past two years our position has been rendered worse by the fall in
Vol. XVI., No. 45.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1869, No 45
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🏛️ Superintendent's Address to Provincial Council
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration9 October 1869
Provincial Council, Canterbury, Financial Depression, Goldfields, Native War
- His Honor the Superintendent