✨ Governor's Speech Opening Parliament
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DIEU ET MON DROIT
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1875.
THE Fifth Session of the Fifth Parliament of New Zealand was this day
opened by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make the
following
SPEECH.
HONORABLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, ---
I have great pleasure in now for the first time meeting the Parliament of
New Zealand, and I trust that your deliberations during the present Session may tend
to advance the well-being and good government of the colony.
Since my assumption of the Government I have had the satisfaction of visiting
the four great centres of the population, and of becoming personally acquainted with
some portions of the Middle Island, and I must congratulate you upon the great
energy which has been evinced, and the rapid strides which have been made towards
the development of the resources of this rich and fertile country.
The reception which I have everywhere received as Her Majesty's Representative
has been most cordial and loyal; and it will, I can assure you, be my anxious desire to
extend my visits with as little delay as possible to all portions of the colony, in order
that I may become personally acquainted with the resources, the requirements, and
as far as possible with the inhabitants, of the various districts.
I observed with the utmost satisfaction the progress which is being made in the
construction of those great public works which have been undertaken by the Govern-
Our relations with that section of the Native people of the colony which
has been so long estranged from us continue to improve. The recent meeting of
Tawhiao with the Native Minister-a meeting sought for and arranged by Tawhiao
himself-gives promise that the isolation in which the immediate adherents of the
Maori King have hitherto held themselves is about to terminate. The renewed desire
of the Natives to provide an English education for their children, as shown by the
ment under your authority, and I trust that the time is not far distant when the
industry of the country will receive a fresh' impetus by their completion. The debt
incurred in the formation of railways has indeed been large; but, at the same time,
the returns received from those sections already opened are most encouraging, and
tend greatly to prove the wisdom of the policy adopted by you.
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NZ Gazette 1875, No 42
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🏛️ Governor's Speech Opening the Fifth Session of Parliament
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration20 July 1875
Parliament opening, Governor's Speech, Public Works, Native relations, Tawhiao
- Tawhiao, Meeting with the Native Minister