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obviate this difficulty (which practically is
not of the slightest importance, for your finan-
cial position,—both as regards revenue and ex-penditure, as you will see by referring to the au-dited accounts—was almost precisely the same on
the first of this month as on the 1st of January)
I propose submitting to you two Appropriation
Bills—one covering the actual expenditure of
the last three months already sanctioned, and the
other for the year commencing the 1st of April
and ending the 31st March next.
With regard to the means of meeting the large
expenditure proposed, I apprehend you will see no
difficulty. On the 1st of January (and it is the
same now) the balance in the hands of the
Treasurer was £17,605; balance due on account
of reserve sixths, £2,881; balance to the credit of
the Province in England, £3,925; interest due
from Hawke’s Bay, £2,500; I estimate the 3-5ths
gross customs at £14,500; licenses (auctioneers’
and publicans’) at £1,900; pilotage, £500; assess-
ment on sheep, £250; Hospital and Lunatic
Asylums (subsistence money), £259; Incidental
Receipts, £100; Immigrants’ Promissory Notes,
£2,000; Rates on land and contributions for
grants in aid, £2,000; pasture licenses and rents,
£1,000; Land sales, £25,000; proceeds of re-
claimed land, £6,000; refund of reserved sixths,
£4,000; making the total receipts, £84,361, to
cover an estimated expenditure of £91,880, exclusive of any liability on account of the Ann
Wilson’s immigrants, and of additions that may
possibly be made to the estimates before they are
finally passed.
This apparent excess of expenditure over in-
come has already been explained by the intim-
ation that £26,000 of it is to be provided by
loan.
Having thus explained to you the present posi-
tion of the Province, and brought before you the
matters which appear to me of the most im-
portance, it simply remains for me to assure you
of my readiness to co-operate with you in any
other measures you may deem calculated to pro-
mote its interests, and to express my earnest hopes
that, recognising, as I believe we all do, the
critical period through which we have passed—
the imminent dangers we have escaped—and the
brighter prospects opening before us—we may not
forget how much the ultimate success of that wise
and pacific policy, in which we are all so deeply in-
terested, and which, in spite of the predictions of
disappointed men and the sinister influences of
unseen opponents, is steadily making its way—
depends upon the Provincial Councils and Go-
vernments of this Island, not merely giving to it
a passive, lukewarm, and lifeless adherence—but
upon their availing themselves of every possible op-
portunity to declare their approval of it, and their
determination to give it their cordial and active
support.
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
SUPERINTENDENT.
Printed under the Authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington by Thomas
McKenzie and James Muir, Printers for the time being to such Government.
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