✨ Speech of the Superintendent
NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
efficiently promoted. A measure shall also be submitted to the General Assembly for the amendment of the "Waste Lands Act 1863," in accordance with your wishes.
In the event of a measure for the consolidation and amendment of the existing Goldfields Acts being brought before Parliament, I will endeavor to give effect to your proposed amendment relative to the purchase of the freehold of lessees of agricultural land within the Goldfields.
The Colonial Government having assented to my request for the construction of a Water-race from Lake Hochstetter to Nelson Creek, I trust that this important work will be commenced without delay.
I look upon the construction of a wooden tramway from the Brunner Coalmines to Cobden, in order to maintain and extend the existing coal trade until the proposed permanent railway to Greymouth can be commenced and completed from Colonial funds, to be a work of urgent necessity, and I shall use every exertion to secure its execution with the least possible delay.
The report of your Select Committee upon the present condition of the Town of Westport, and the measures which you recommend for the maintenance of the town and for the relief to some extent of those inhabitants who have suffered by the ravages of the sea and the river shall receive my immediate attention with a view to carry out your wishes as speedily as possible.
Your resolution in favor of the union of some of the small road districts, with a establishment of Road Boards, having the control of larger funds, and in other respects better able to carry out the provisions of the "Highway Boards Empowering Act 1871," shall receive the early attention of the Executive Government.
I now declare this Council prorogued.
OSWALD CURTIS,
Superintendent.
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Bridge Street, Nelson, Printers for the time being to the said Government
Nelson Provincial Gazette 1872, No 21
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Speech of the Superintendent on the Prorogation of the Nelson Provincial Council
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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government14 June 1872
Nelson Provincial Council, Prorogation, Waste Lands Act, Goldfields, Water-race, Brunner Coalmines, Westport, Road Boards
- Oswald Curtis, Superintendent