✨ Provincial Council opening speech
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. IV. NELSON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1856. No. 4.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1856.
THE Superintendent opened the Third Session of the Provincial Council, at the Council Chamber, at one o'clock, when his Honor delivered the following speech :—
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL—
In opening the present session, I cannot but congratulate you on the circumstance that the people of the province, by means of the elections which have taken place during the recess, have been enabled, in the exercise of their privileges, to testify their sense of the importance attached to your proceedings, and to bestow their confidence on those calculated to add to your ability to promote the public welfare; while, from the augmentation in your number, additional weight has been conferred upon your deliberations, and ample security afforded for anticipating the most beneficial results from the acts of a legislative body in which every public interest is duly represented.
I have also to congratulate you, that in resuming the consideration of those measures called for by the progress of the province, you will be encouraged by the knowledge of the continued prosperity which all classes enjoy, and that the success which has attended the praiseworthy efforts of the colonists to subdue the wilderness warrants the belief that a similar success—similar efforts—may be looked for as a permanent feature in the condition of this country. This belief will find ample corroboration from an examination of the Statistics of the Province which will be laid before you, which, commencing from the year following the arrival of the first colonists, and brought up to the end of 1854, have been carefully compiled from various sources. In the first six years of the period embraced by them, Nelson appears to have been generally in a stationary and sometimes in a retrograding condition, while they present unmistakable evidence that in the last six years the province has, in all the elements of prosperity, with but one exception, to which I will presently refer, exhibited a steady, and latterly a rapid, advance.
When we consider the difficulties which unavoidably surrounded a people, few in number, landed in a country so remote from the old centres of civilization—when we remember the doubts, the apparent dangers, the obstructions too numerous to instance, with which they had to contend—when those amongst you, with myself, have been, almost from the first days of its colonization, identified with its struggles and its success, contrast the universally diffused indications of
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1856, No 4
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🏘️ Opening of the Third Session of the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government23 January 1856
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