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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 thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications sent to the Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Excellency’s Command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.
PROVINCIAL - WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1849.
JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
PROVINCIAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Wellington, Monday, June 11, 1849.
Present: His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and all the Members, excepting the Hon. A. Ludlam, 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 laid on the table certain papers relating to the measures of colonization for property destroyed during the disturbances at Wanganui. Surveyor, agreeable to notice, moved, seconded by Dr. Greenwood, “that this Council do now adjourn the following report and resolutions of the Committee on Education.”
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF LEGISLATION.
COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.
In presenting their report upon the best means of promoting education, your committee desire to manifest their deep sense of the importance of the task which they have undertaken; and whilst congratulating those they honor to proposing for your consideration a plan of adoption, a more decided plan than heretofore appeared practicable. The extended discussion which the subject has now received, the numerous experiments which have been made, and the published reports of the working of various systems of education have, however, both considerably lightened their task and lessened their responsibility. It is now generally admitted that no one plan less the duty of Government to provide education for every member of society in the value and extent of his obligations to it, than to impose penalties upon him for their infraction; and the managers whose duty it specially is, the conviction, and the present Constitutional movement which has in consequence taken place not only in the mother country but elsewhere, would doubtless signify less the intrinsic value of the privilege without equivalent fairy bestowed to profit by the information which has been accumulated; of to follow the example which has been set before them. Yet such an undertaking the circumstances which Province disregard to offer great facilities and encouragement. During the few years of its existence, the various changes it has undergone,
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New Munster Gazette 1849, No 17
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🏛️ Journal of Proceedings of the Provincial Legislative Council
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration11 June 1849
Legislative Council, Wellington, Education Committee, Colonization Measures
- A. Ludlam (Honourable), Absent member
- Dillon Bell, Absent member
- W. O. Cautley, Absent member
- Surveyor, Moved adjournment
- Greenwood (Doctor), Seconded adjournment
- Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary