✨ Governor's Speech Conclusion
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Papers will be laid before you which will inform you what steps have been
taken towards establishing a continuous stream of Immigration.
I am glad to be able to inform you that the operation of the Act which three
years since the Legislature wisely passed, for establishing on Colonial security a
system of Life Assurance and Annuities, continues to meet with marked success.
The progress and development of that system on the principles on which it is based
will, I am sure, materially tend to the social comfort and welfare, not only of
those who directly share in it, but, indirectly, of the whole community.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,----
Estimates will be laid before you, framed with every regard for economy con-
sistent with efficient administration.
A very satisfactory symptom of that reviving prosperity of the Colony which
I ventured last Session to hope was not far distant, is to be found, I am happy to
say, in the increased and increasing receipts of Revenue.
HONORABLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, -
The occurrence of a few cases of Small-pox in the Colony should remind you
of the importance of Sanitary Laws. A Bill will be submitted to you for im-
proving the law relating to Vaccination and Quarantine, and for better enabling
means to be taken for the repression of Epidemic Disease in towns and country
districts.
Measures will be submitted to you to consolidate and amend the laws
relating to Gold Mining; to reduce the Stamp Duty payable on Receipts, and
the annual Stamp Duty payable by certain Companies; to reduce the Postage
within the Colony on Newspapers; to enable Municipalities and Road Districts
to enter into arrangements or grant concessions for the construction of Tram-
ways; to make more liberal the terms on which Drawbacks are granted; to
encourage Fisheries; to amend the laws relating to the Public Revenues; to
amend the law of Bankruptcy; to provide for the appointment of a Public
Trustee; and to consolidate and amend the laws relating to Elections.
These and other measures which may be brought before you I commend
to your careful consideration; and I pray that your labours may, under the bless-
ing of Providence, conduce to the prosperity of the Colony and the happiness of
the two races which inhabit it.
Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
NZ Gazette 1872, No 35
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Conclusion of Governor's Speech outlining legislative intentions for the session
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration16 July 1872
Immigration, Life Assurance, Vaccination, Gold Mining, Stamp Duty, Tramways, Bankruptcy, Elections