New Zealand Gazette – 1854 – No. 39

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✨ Financial Tables and Report Continuation



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EXPENDITURE during the nine months ending 30th June, 1854.—Continued.

OTAGO.

Item Current £ Current s. Current d. Totals £ Totals s. Totals d.
Customs 466 14 9
Resident Magistrate 143 0 0
Subtreasury 4 3 4
Police Department 44 9 0
Harbour Department 16 13 4
Inspector of Sheep 3 4
Pound keeper 1 13 4
Supreme Court 6 13 8
Sheriff's Department 60 0 0
Colonial Surgeon 28 9 10
Aborigines 35 5 4
Interest on Debentures 16 0 0
Government Brig 1 16 6
Miscellaneous 668 11 8
Crown Land and Surveys 2021 0 0
Land Purchases 2032 8 8
Provincial Treasurer 5555 2 9

RECAPITULATION.

DISBURSEMENTS.—ORDINARY EXPENDITURE.

Province Totals (£ s. d.)
Auckland 85,299 17 1
New Plymouth 3,004 19 2
Wellington 31,844 5 5
Nelson 19,412 17 6
Canterbury 7,957 11 0
Otago 5,555 2 9
TOTAL 153,074 13 0

CHARLES KNIGHT, Auditor-General.

interesting race of men just emerging from nation on the part of the Natives themselves.
barbarism, would, under the breath of this They are led to believe on the other hand,
fatal disease, be added to the long list of that the Natives already are partly acquainted
coloured races, who have disappeared before with the objects of vaccination and anxious
the advancing footstep of the colonist.
to avail themselves of the protection, it affords.

The enquiry of your Committee was there-
They have in evidence from good authority,
fore narrowed almost entirely to a considera-
that not more than one tenth of the native
tion of the agency by which it can be most
inhabitants of the Northern Island, comprising
widely and rapidly accomplished. The existence
nearly the whole of the native population
of a large number of Missionaries of different
have received the protection of vaccination.
denominations in various parts of the country,
They deem it a paramount duty on the part of established originally for the purpose of con-
the European colonists of the country, to verting the native people to Christianity, and
extend to the Maori people, that protection at all times zealous in the promotion of any-
which they have themselves received, and thing calculated to advance their welfare, of
owe to their superior civilization. And they course, suggested itself to your Committee;
may be allowed, perhaps, to add, that no cir- and they feel assured, that in promoting so
cumstance could more suitably inaugurate the good a work as this, the House may reckon
era of Representative Government, or tend with confidence on the active anl cheerful co-
more surely to establish it in the confidence of operation of the Missionaries of all creeds
the Native inhabitants, than a measure like throughout New Zealand.
this, which should unanswerably demonstrate
A second agency, and one directly under the
to them that their health, even their existence control of the Government, exists in the var-
is an object of anxious solicitude to their ious Colonial Surgeons throughout the country
white brethren.
whose services in the cause would be most
valuable, not only in actively themselves vac-
In considering the speediest and most prac- cinating the Natives, but also by acting as
ticable means of vaccinating the Natives, your instructors to the Missionaries, and by supply-
Committee have not been met by any diffi- ing them from time to time with lymph and
culty arising out of objections or disincli-



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💰 Provincial Expenditure Statement for Otago and Recapitulation (continued from previous page)

💰 Finance & Revenue
Expenditure, Otago, Provincial Totals, Financial Summary, Auditor-General
  • CHARLES KNIGHT, Auditor-General

🏥 Continuation of Committee Report on Vaccinating the Native Population (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
28 November 1854
Vaccination, Maori welfare, Missionaries, Colonial Surgeons, Public Health