New Zealand Gazette – 1897 – No. 32

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✨ Parliament Opening Speech

Num. 32.

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1897.

THE First Session of the Thirteenth Parliament of New Zealand was this day
opened by the Administrator of the Government, 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 is with pleasure that I have convened this meeting of Parliament to enable
you to arrange for the fitting representation of the colony in the celebrations
about to take place in London to commemorate the completion of the sixtieth
year of Her Most Gracious Majesty’s prolonged and beneficent reign.

New Zealand, in common with every other dependency of the Empire, has
been invited to send representatives on this great occasion to England, such
representatives to be the guests of the Mother-country. The despatches in
reference thereto will be laid before you.

Both Houses of Parliament will be asked to adopt respectful addresses
conveying to our Most Gracious Sovereign congratulations befitting this great
occasion.

His Excellency the Earl of Glasgow left New Zealand in February last,
carrying with him the respect and esteem of the inhabitants of the colony.
On His Excellency’s departure I assumed the office of Administrator of the
Government, and for the fourth time in the history of the colony it has devolved
upon the Administrator to deliver the opening speech to Parliament.

Despatches have been received announcing the appointment of the Earl of
Ranfurly as Governor of New Zealand. His Excellency will shortly arrive in
the colony, and be loyally and cordially welcomed as the representative of Her
Most Gracious Majesty.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1897, No 32

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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🏛️ Speech opening the First Session of the Thirteenth Parliament

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated7 April 1897
KeywordsParliament, Opening, Speech, Diamond Jubilee, Queen Victoria, Governor, Earl of Glasgow, Earl of Ranfurly, Administrator of Government
👱🏽 Names

Glasgow (Earl), left New Zealand in February
Ranfurly (Earl), appointed as Governor of New Zealand

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