New Zealand Gazette – 1867 – No. 51

Page 372

✨ Governor's Speech Text



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN, -

Although you have been unable to provide a general measure for establishing
local self-government, the claims of outlying districts to powers so essential to
nourish the spirit of liberty and self-reliance have not been neglected; and I
have gladly assented to the Bills for conferring such privileges, with a fair share
of the local revenues, on the Districts of Westland, and of Timaru and Gladstone.

The elaborate Act for organizing Municipal Corporations, furnishes to town
populations a very complete machinery for their local wants, and frees them, in
the administration of their affairs, from the doubts which under existing provincial
laws attached to some of their proceedings.

There is every reason to believe that the depression under which several
important parts of the Colony have for some time laboured has reached its lowest
point, and that with the re-establishment of peace, -the opening of the Northern
Districts for settlement, the continued and increasing development of rich Gold
Fields in both Islands a fresh tide of prosperity will set in, and that when you
next are called together it will be found that these favoured islands have entered
on a career of permanent progress which internal troubles will not again interrupt.

In releasing you from your legislative duties, I would remind you of the
importance of using the influence which the confidence of the people confers upon
you to facilitate the administration of the measures you have passed. I trust that
by the blessing of God, the result of your labours will be the increased happiness
and prosperity of the people of New Zealand.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.




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🏛️ Governor's Speech Proroguing Parliament (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
10 October 1867
Legislation, Local Government, Prosperity, Peace, Settlement, Gold Fields