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if it has to be submitted to auction. This will
prevent, in future, such loss of time and capi-
tal as a rigid adherence to our present system
has, no doubt, in some cases produced.
I also propose to extend the principle of
making grants of land, under conditions to
be approved by you by special Act, for
public works, whereby even railways may be
constructed, thereby preventing the absorp-
tion of the greater part, if not the whole of
the public revenue for one particular line
of road and depriving every other portion
of the Province of the means necessary for
its development and improvement.
Several other provisions will be found in
the draft, intended to clear up doubts or to
improve the administration of the law as it
exists.
I think the Legislature and Executive are
agreed as to the general principles to be
embodied, and I trust that, by your care, the
proposals I have made will be matured into
a consistent system which may meet the
sanction of the Assembly, and remain for a
long time the law under which the provin-
cial estate may be advantageously adminis-
tered.
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A Loan Bill will be laid before you
empowering me to raise £70,000 for the
development of the coal-fields and for the
construction of waterworks. As the pro-
posal to raise this loan has already received
the sanction of the General Government, and
the works to be carried out by it are of a
reproductive character, I trust the measure
will meet with your approval. -
I have to express to you the regret I
feel at assembling you at a season of the year
so opposite to that at which you have ex-
pressed your desire to meet. The importance
of the subjects, with the necessity that ap-
pears to me to exist of submitting the pro-
posed Land Regulations to the Assembly,
will, I hope, be to you a satisfactory reason
for the course I have pursued, and I hope,
notwithstanding the importance of the sub-
jects to be considered, that, as the measures
now to be laid before you have previously
received a considerable amount of your at-
tention, the present Session need not be of
long duration.
I now declare this Council open for the
despatch of business.
J. P. ROBINSON,
Superintendent.
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Provincial Council, Superintendent, Land Regulations, Coal-fields, Waterworks, Loan Bill, Nelson Province
- J. P. Robinson (Superintendent), Delivering Superintendent's address to Provincial Council
- J. P. Robinson, Superintendent