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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. XXIII. NELSON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1874. No. 6.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1874.
THE Twenty-fourth 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—
In accordance with the intention which I expressed during the late election, I have called you together at this unusual time in the year in order to lay before you proposals for submission to the General Assembly, empowering the Provincial Government to raise money for the construction of public works essential to the further settlement and prosperity of the province.
The sum which I think this province may prudently borrow, and profitably expend, is two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and the various works which I shall submit to you as those to which I consider that the proceeds of the loan should be devoted have been carefully selected as being best calculated to open up the interior of the province, and to enable its resources to be utilised in the most speedy and effectual manner.
Although the General Assembly has, from the passing of the Consolidated Loan Act in 1867, steadily set its face against the raising of loans for Provincial purposes, the events of the late session of Parliament show a decided tendency towards a change of policy in this respect.
In common with the Superintendents of most of the other provinces, I introduced a Bill to authorise this province to raise a loan of £110,000 for the construction of certain specified public works. But although the Bill received the assent of the House of Representatives, it was rejected, together with the other similar measures to which I have referred, by the Legislative Council.
The necessity for supplementing the main trunk lines of Railway, the construction of which has been authorised, and in some cases commenced, by branch roads and bridges connecting them with the surrounding country, was, however, almost universally recognised
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🏘️ Opening of the Twenty-fourth Session of the Provincial Council of Nelson
🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentProvincial Council, Nelson, Public Works, Loan, Infrastructure, Superintendent
- Alfred Greenfield, Provincial Secretary