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NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)
Published by Authority.
All Public 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.
By His Excellency’s Command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. II.] WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1849. [No. 16.
JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1849.
Present—
His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and all the Members, excepting the Hon. Dillon Bell, and W. O. Cautley.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.
The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed.
His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor delivered the following reply to the address presented to him on Friday, June 1st:—
In accordance with the wishes of the Legislative Council, expressed in their address of the 1st June, I have directed the Attorney General to prepare a “Bill to authorize the levying and collecting of tolls within the Province of New Munster, based upon the general principles with respect to the mode of electing Commissioners, determining the amount of tolls, and securing their payment, as already adopted in an Ordinance of this Session, for levying a rate for the repairs of roads in any Town.”
Whilst I have given these instructions, in deference to the opinion of the Legislative Council, I feel bound to state that I do not coincide in their opinion; for, although the principle embodied in a Bill for imposing tolls, viz., that of making those pay for the roads who use them, must be acknowledged as just in theory, I cannot but think that in a colony so recently established as this, and so peculiarly circumstanced in other respects, such a mode of obtaining funds for the repair of roads will in practice be found unsuitable to the state of the community, and insufficient for attaining the objects sought.
My reasons for this opinion are:
First—That, with the exception of a single locality near the Kaiwarra bridge, I do not believe there is any other position in the Province where the tolls collected (if esta,
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🏛️ Journal of Proceedings in the Legislative Council
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration4 June 1849
Legislative Council, Proceedings, Toll Bill, Roads, New Munster
- Dillon Bell (Honourable), Absent member of the Legislative Council
- W. O. Cautley, Absent member of the Legislative Council
- Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary