✨ Speech from the Throne
JUNE 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 845
The prosecution of public works during the last year has been marked by one
or two features calling for special notice. The encouragement of associations of
workmen on the co-operative system has led to results equally satisfactory to the
State and the workmen concerned. The same may be said of the abolition of the
system known as “sub-contracting.”
You will be asked again to consider Bills dealing with the land-laws, the
acquisition of private lands for settlement in small blocks, and for the relief of
certain hard-pressed tenants of the Crown. The Electoral Bill, as introduced last
year, will again be laid before you, with one very noticeable addition. The Juries
Bill will this year contain certain further reforms; and you will be asked to pass a
Bill amending the law of bankruptcy, and another providing for the payment of
members.
There are also ready for your consideration Bills dealing with the Civil servants
and other employés of the State, several measures relating to agriculture, Bills for
amending the law relating to insurance companies and policies, for dealing with
unclaimed lands and moneys, for aiding the acquisition of Native lands, for
dealing with the Native Land Court, with the West Coast reserves, with technical
education, with the transfer of land, with testamentary restrictions on property, as
well as other Bills relating to matters of public interest.
In the opinion of my Advisers the time has now arrived for placing on the
Statute-book a measure providing for the establishment of Boards of Conciliation
and a Court of Arbitration to cope with industrial disputes. Other measures
designed to improve the condition of the wage-earners and workmen of the colony
will be laid before you.
These matters I commend to your attention, assuring you of my earnest wish
to aid your labours in the interests of the colony, and praying that your efforts may,
with God’s blessing, tend to the happiness and well-being of the people of New
Zealand.
By Authority: GEORGE DIDSURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration23 June 1892
Speech, Governor, Parliament, Public Works, Co-operative System, Sub-contracting, Land Laws, Settlement, Electoral Bill, Juries Bill, Bankruptcy, Civil Servants, Agriculture, Insurance, Unclaimed Lands, Native Lands, Native Land Court, West Coast Reserves, Technical Education, Land Transfer, Testamentary Restrictions, Conciliation Boards, Court of Arbitration, Wage-earners, Workmen
- GEORGE DIDSURY, Government Printer