✨ Superintendent's Address to Provincial Council
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
Vol. XX. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1873. No. XX.
ADDRESS
OF
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
ON OPENING THE THIRTY-NINTH SESSION OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF CANTERBURY.
Mr. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN,
I have called you together for the present Special Session, in accordance with what I understand to have been the wish at your last meeting, that you should be consulted before any new engagements were entered into in respect of the Harbour Works in Port Lyttelton.
In the meantime, a Report has been obtained from the principal Engineers of the Colony containing recommendations as to the best means to be adopted to increase to the utmost the Wharfage and Harbour accommodation. This Report, with Plans—which have been prepared to give effect to the suggestions it contains, will be laid before you, and your authority will be asked to press on the works without delay.
A further reason for having recourse to your advice has arisen from the failure of the negotiations for obtaining the eastern side of Cathedral Square for a site for the Public Buildings of the General Government. The Synod of the Church of England having refused to sell the plot of ground which you desired to acquire, it becomes necessary to make other arrangements for the same object. I need scarcely point out the great inconvenience which the public departments suffer from the want of those buildings, or the necessity which exists that the Province should immediately avail itself of the appropriations which have been made for the purpose of their construction. Correspondence and proposals upon this subject will be placed before you.
Vol. XX., No. 20.
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🏘️ Address by Superintendent to Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government3 May 1873
Provincial Council, Harbour Works, Lyttelton, Public Buildings, Cathedral Square
- His Honor the Superintendent