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The manner in which Mr. Ottywell has despatched the ships which have arrived during the past year, and the care he has taken in the selection of immigrants is deserving of great praise, and convinces me that he will be able, with some assistance, to carry on a larger immigration should you determine upon it. Since the beginning of January in last year, six ships have arrived with a total of some 700 adults, and in every instance I have had reason to be thoroughly satisfied with the arrangements made.
A Draft Bill will be transmitted to you, providing for the Management of Cemeteries. The law, as I am advised, does not allow the Superintendent to convey Public Cemeteries vested in him under the ‘Public Reserves Act, 1854,’ to the different religious denominations; and the Bill which will be laid before you is intended to carry out the purpose of the resolution passed by you on this subject in the month of April, 1868.
It is not my intention to propose any other measures of general importance during the present Session, as a future Superintendent and Council will no doubt have to meet before the termination of the financial year on the close of the next Session of the General Assembly. As it will be necessary that the elections should be over before that time; and as it is inexpedient that they should be proceeding while the Assembly is sitting, I have, in accordance with what I understood to be your wishes, requested His Excellency to direct a dissolution to take place at an earlier date than that at which the present Council would be dissolved in the ordinary course.
I now declare this Council open for the despatch of business.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent of Canterbury.
CHRISTCHURCH:
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1870, No 11
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Address of the Superintendent to the Provincial Council
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🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentSuperintendent, Provincial Council, Railway, Immigration, Wharfage
- Ottywell (Mr), Immigration management praised
- WM. ROLLESTON, Superintendent of Canterbury