✨ Governor's Speech Opening Parliament
Num. 95. 1273
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1884.
THE First Session of the Ninth Parliament of New Zealand was this day opened
by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make the following
S P E E C H.
HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES,—
It affords me much pleasure to meet you again in Parliament assembled.
I have recourse to your assistance as early as the arrangements consequent on
the retirement of the late Administration have permitted.
My Advisers are of opinion that it is undesirable that questions of abstract
policy should at present be dealt with further than circumstances render imperatively
necessary, and that concentrated attention should be given to many urgent matters
relating to the material, economic, and industrial interests of the colony. As far as
time will allow, it is proposed to deal with such matters during this session.
Great importance is to be attached to improving the industrial resources of the
colony: prominent amongst which may be mentioned the mining interest, the
promotion of settlement, and the advancement of local production and manufactures.
It is of the first consequence that the country should possess satisfactory and sufficient
industries. The subject requires very careful and comprehensive treatment, and
little in such a direction can be effected through the Customs tariff, which is already
very high.
The progress of public works also demands resolute attention. It will be neces-
sary to consider carefully the position of those now in progress, with a view to
determining how they shall be proceeded with. It cannot prove economical to con-
struct works in a manner so slow and fragmentary as to postpone indefinitely any return
from the money expended. On the other hand the colony must be careful to restrain
the exercise of its borrowing powers within reasonable limits.
My Ministers consider that a great deal of the pressure which is brought to
bear on a Government to construct works in unprofitable fragments arises through
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🏛️ Governor's Speech Opening the Ninth Parliament
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration19 August 1884
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