✨ Governor's Speech Conclusion
270
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
confer great benefit on the Colony. It also provides speedy communication with
Great Britain.
Your attention will be invited to the condition of the Colony, and to the
stagnation and depression under which it labours, consequent on the comparative
suspension of Colonization during the last few years. With the view of
renewing the great work of Colonization, proposals will be laid before you for
encouraging and aiding Immigration, and for constructing Public Works.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, -
Estimates of Expenditure for the coming Financial Year will be laid before
you. While providing for the efficiency of the Public Service, they will exhibit a
strict regard to the economical administration of the various Departments of
Government.
HONOURABLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, --
I am happy to inform you that the Telegraph has made most satisfactory
progress in various respects. Communication is open with Patea and Taupo,
and is being rapidly extended to Tauranga. You will be glad to learn that the
New Zealand Commissioners are negotiating for the construction of a cable
between New Zealand and Australia. You will be asked to consider the subject.
The beneficent measure for promoting Life Assurance, which you passed last
Session, has been brought into operation; and, short though the time has been
since that date, it gives every prospect of success.
Amongst other subjects, you will be asked to give your consideration to
measures to readjust the Representation; to provide for Vote by Ballot; to
amend the Law of Bankruptcy; to enable Local Rates to be more readily
recovered; to reduce the Duty on Gold of an inferior quality; to reduce
the Rate of Interprovincial Postage; to reunite, at their own desire, the
Provinces of Otago and Southland; and to facilitate the Registration of Titles
and the Transfer of Land.
I trust that the Divine Wisdom will guide your deliberations, and that
your united labours will result in the establishment of permanent peace, and
the promotion of the general prosperity of the Colony.
Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
NZ Gazette 1870, No 32
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🏛️
Conclusion of Governor's Speech Opening Parliament
(continued from previous page)
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration14 June 1870
Colonization, Immigration, Public Works, Estimates, Telegraph, Life Assurance, Representation, Bankruptcy, Land Transfer, Prosperity
- George Didsbury, Government Printer