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THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
OF THE
PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature hereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.
VOL. VI.] MONDAY, JULY 17, 1865. [No. 105.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1865.
The Twelfth Session of the Marlborough Provincial Council was opened on the 26th June, at six o’clock in the evening, when his Honour the Superintendent delivered the following address:
Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the Provincial Council—
In opening this, the twelfth session of the Provincial Council, I have to submit to your consideration the following bills:—
Roads Bill
Mahakipawa Tramway Bill
Dog Nuisance Amendment Bill.
The Roads Bill now presented to you has been carefully prepared, and I trust will meet with your assent, as I feel convinced the province will much advantage from its operation.
The amount of the rate to be levied has not been fixed in the draft now laid before you, but the Government is desirous of seeing such a rate imposed as shall not unduly press upon any particular class, whilst the gain through the administration of roads by the hands of local boards will shortly become as apparent with us as in other provinces pursuing a similar system.
The Government is led to believe that shortly a proposition will be submitted to it from a private company to construct a wooden tramway from the landing-place, Anakiwa, to the landing-place, Mahakipawa. A bill will therefore be submitted to you for the purpose of giving the Superintendent power to lease a certain portion of the road line through, and I recommend the appropriation of a small sum of money as a bonus to induce the more speedy undertaking of that work, which would prove of most material benefit.
The Dog Nuisance Amendment Bill is a measure framed for the purpose of bringing the Dog Nuisance Act into force in towns by proclamation, and will be found useful.
Detailed Estimates will be laid before you, in which the departmental expenses have been calculated on the ground of the strictest economy, so much so that I have no hesitation in stating that the public interest would suffer if a further reduction were insisted on.
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1865, No 105
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🏘️ Opening Address of the Twelfth Session of the Marlborough Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government26 June 1865
Provincial Council, Legislative Session, Roads Bill, Mahakipawa Tramway Bill, Dog Nuisance Amendment Bill
- A. P. Seymour, Superintendent