✨ Superintendent's Address
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
Vol. XXII. FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1875. No. XVI.
ADDRESS
OF
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
ON OPENING THE FORTY-SECOND SESSION OF THE PROVINCIAL
COUNCIL OF CANTERBURY.
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN,
When I met you in the month of May last, it was my privilege to congratulate you on the prosperous condition which the Province had attained.
If some of the exceptional circumstances which then attended our position are now wanting, we still have cause to be well satisfied with the progress which the Province is making in enlarged industries, increased population, and extended means of communication.
If the agricultural interest has to consent for the present to a lower price for this year’s produce, the unusual yield of the grain harvest will to some extent compensate for the reduction in the ruling rates; and very beneficial results may be expected from the largely increased facilities for shipment.
The price of wool has been maintained at fairly remunerative rates, and the recently published returns show that the growth of this product is far more largely combined with that of grain throughout the country than in previous years; so that the prosperity of the agricultural interest is far less dependent on one class of produce than heretofore.
Nearly 50,000 acres have been laid down in artificial grasses during the past year making a total of nearly 300,000 acres so laid down, while the growth of other crops than grain and grass has been more than doubled in the past year, thus largely increasing the producing power of the country, and showing a marked advance in the conduct of farming operations.
Vol. XXII., No. 16.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1875, No 16
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🏘️ Address by His Honor the Superintendent at the Opening of the Forty-Second Session of the Provincial Council of Canterbury
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government2 April 1875
Provincial Council, Canterbury, Address, Agriculture, Wool, Population, Communication
- His Honor the Superintendent