Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1872 – No. 16

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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. XXI. NELSON, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1872. No. 16.

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1872.

The Twenty-second Session of the Provincial Council of Nelson was opened this day at Twelve o'clock, when the following Address was delivered by his Honor the Superintendent :—

MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,—

  1. In my address to you at the opening of your last Session I congratulated you upon the passing of the Payments to Provinces Act, which, by providing for a series of years a fixed annual rate per head of the population as the contribution from the Colonial Revenue for local purposes, enabled the Provincial Governments to estimate with accuracy the amount of a leading item of their revenues.

I regret to say that the Act has since been repealed and that the estimate of revenue for the past year, so far as it was founded upon those provisions, has consequently been far from realised.

The Gold Duty has also fallen short of that of the year 1870-71 by £2000, instead of showing an increase to the same extent as I anticipated, and the other sources of goldfields' revenue have produced less by £1000 than the estimated amount, although slightly more than the sum collected during the preceding year.

The receipts of revenue from all sources have been £70,000, and the total expenditure £68,000, the remaining £2000 having been devoted to reduction of the Provincial Overdraft at the Bank of New Zealand from £5500 to £3500.

  1. The resolutions you passed in favor of the construction of lines of railroad from the Brunner Mines to Cobden, from Nelson to Foxhill, and from Mount Rochfort to Westport,


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🏘️ Opening of the Twenty-second Session of the Provincial Council of Nelson

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
30 April 1872
Provincial Council, Nelson, Superintendent, Gold Duty, Provincial Overdraft, Railroad construction
  • Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary
  • The Superintendent