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THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
PROVINCE OF HAWKE'S BAY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
DONALD McLEAN,
Superintendent.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1863. [No. 6.]
ADDRESS
OF
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT,
TO THE
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL
OF HAWKE'S BAY,
25TH MARCH, 1858.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council—
In opening the present session of the Provincial Council I again thank you for the unanimous manner in which you have elected me to the office of Superintendent.
I am fully sensible of the responsibility and appreciate the importance at this peculiar juncture in our Provincial affairs of the trust you have confided to me.
The unsettled state of our relations with the Natives—the reduction in our territorial revenue—and a withdrawal of a portion of our population to Otago and other gold-producing provinces, has occasioned a greater depression as compared with past years of more abundant revenue, than might have been expected, but I trust this state of things may not be of long duration.
Notwithstanding these discouragements, it must be allowed that the Province is steadily advancing in material wealth, as shown by the extensive improvements carried on by private enterprise as well as by the annually increasing value of its exports. The exports from the Port of Napier alone for the year 1858 amounted to £24,270 16s. 8d.; imports for the same period, £4,786; exports for the year 1862, £90,920 6s. 6d.; imports, £33,294 10s.
It is satisfactory to be able to assure the inhabitants of this Province that there are no questions at issue with the natives calculated in any way to disturb its general tranquility.
Whatever causes may exist to create anxiety in other parts of this Island, we may confidently anticipate a continuance of friendly relations with the Natives of Hawke’s Bay, and I am glad to bear my own testimony to the fact that they are steadily progressing in industrial pursuits and in the acquisition of property and wealth which
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Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1863, No 6
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