✨ Railway construction correspondence
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 made to those Persons whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
J. C. RICHMOND, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XI. NELSON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1863. No. 25.
Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
August 29, 1863.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Correspondence, relative to the construction of the proposed line of Railway.
J. C. RICHMOND,
Provincial Secretary.
Superintendent's Office, Nelson,
August 14, 1863.
The Honorable
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,
Auckland.
SIR,—I have the honor to enclose, for the consideration of his Excellency the Governor, a copy of a series of resolutions, passed in the Provincial Council, approving of the construction of a line of Railway to the interior of this Province, and of the raising a sum of £300,000 by loan for this and other purposes.
In forwarding these resolutions, it is right that I should state that the Council was pretty evenly divided on the questions. Twelve members (including the Speaker, who voted in Committee) approved, and ten disapproved.
It is also my duty to furnish his Excellency's Government with my own views on the subject. Of the ultimate great public utility of the proposed work I am satisfied. It is possible the quantity of land which would be improved by its construction would justify the outlay if the whole of the improved land could be charged with it. But I am compelled to hesitate about the propriety of the undertaking chiefly by the fact that the districts to be improved in the highest degree by it, may possibly at some early day, be separated from this Province, and the whole burden cast on a part of the community at the same time that the means of bearing it are greatly reduced. His Excellency's advisers are doubtless aware that there is an influx of diggers going on into this Province from Otago and Australia: and a high probability exists that rich gold fields may be discovered on all parts of the River Buller and its tributaries. The presence of a population approaching in numbers to that of the Otago gold fields, if even it should not continue settled beyond a few years, might of itself justify the proposed outlay. A few months, or perhaps weeks,
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1863, No 25
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🏗️ Publication of correspondence regarding proposed railway construction and loan
🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works29 August 1863
Railway, Loan, Nelson Province, Provincial Council, Infrastructure
- J. C. Richmond, Provincial Secretary