✨ Governor's Speech
Numb. 49.
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1892.
THE Third Session of the Eleventh Parliament of New Zealand was this day opened by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make the following
SPEECH.
HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,—
It gives me much pleasure to meet you in Parliament assembled so soon after my arrival in New Zealand.
I have also to express my pleasure at the warm and loyal welcome given me as Her Majesty’s Representative by the inhabitants of this city and district. I feel convinced that this is but an earnest of the cordial feeling of loyalty to our Sovereign entertained by the whole people of the colony—a feeling which found expression in the widespread grief and sympathy manifested some months since on the occasion of the sad and lamented death of Her Majesty’s grandson, the Duke of Clarence.
It is my pleasant lot, at this the commencement of my term of office, to be able to congratulate you upon the continued and sustained improvement in the public finances and private industries of the colony. New Zealand is now in a sounder and more prosperous state than at any time during the last thirteen years. I am happily able to state, as my predecessor stated twelve months ago, that the provision made during last session for carrying on the public services has proved more than sufficient. The remarkable volume of our exports, still greatly in excess of that of our imports, proves clearly that the colony possesses both the power and the will to steadily reduce its liabilities. The relative increase of the imports, moreover, may be considered evidence that this process of reduction is now sufficiently far advanced to allow to the people of the colony a wider margin for expenditure. It is with pleasure that I draw your attention to the fact that the exports of New Zealand produce for the financial year show an actual increase, despite the partial failure of the wheat harvest of 1891, and the comparatively low price of our staple export, wool.
On the occasion of your meeting together last year your attention was especially invited to that exodus of population from this to the neighbouring colonies, which, after continuing for some years, had up to that moment shown no sign of abatement. I am glad, however, to be able to inform you that, since the
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NZ Gazette 1892, No 49
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🏛️ Opening of Third Session of Eleventh Parliament
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration23 June 1892
Speech, Governor, Parliament, Welcome, Finances, Exports, Population
- His Excellency the Governor