✨ Provincial Council Opening Address
THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
Published by Authority.
All Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XX. NELSON, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1871. No. 11.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1871.
The Twenty-first Session of the Provincial Council of Nelson was opened this day at One o\'clock, when the following Address of his Honor the Superintendent was delivered:—
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL—
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The Revenue for the Financial Year just ended although not quite equal to that of the preceding twelve months, approaches it so nearly as to show that the continued depression, which has prevailed in almost every branch of industry in the Colony, has not seriously affected the Finances of this Province—the actual Receipts during the year 1870-71 having amounted to £80,000, against £82,000 in 1869-70, notwithstanding that the Census just completed shows that the population of the South-West Goldfields has diminished to a material extent while that of the other parts of the Province has increased in only a very small degree.
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The alteration of the law effected in the last Session of the General Assembly by \"The Payment to Provinces Act,\" which substitutes a fixed capitation allowance for the moiety of the Consolidated Revenue hitherto allocated to the Provinces, both simplifies accounts between the Colonial and Provincial Governments, and enables the latter to estimate with accuracy the amount of a leading item of their revenues, while the annual grant provided by the same measure for expenditure by Road Boards would otherwise have necessarily been devoted to the works now executed under the direction of those bodies.
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The amendments in \"The Waste Lands Act, 1863,\" which you adopted by resolution in your last Session, were passed into law by the General Assembly without alteration. Those you wished to see introduced into \"The Leasing Act, 1867,\" passed without material alteration through the House of Representatives, but in the Legislative Council the important clauses entitling the lessee to a Crown Grant after duo payment of rent only for a term of years, were struck out. I propose, however, to introduce a measure containing the same provisions at the meeting of the new Parliament, and I think,
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1871, No 11
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🏘️ Opening of the Twenty-first Session of the Provincial Council of Nelson
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government25 April 1871
Provincial Council, Nelson, Superintendent, Opening Address, Legislation, Finance
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary