✨ Governor's Address Summary
JUNE 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1227
I am pleased to be able to state that mining in all its branches maintains its position amongst the industries of the colony, the yield of gold for the year 1899 being the highest for the past twenty-six years, while the output from the coal-mines shows a steady increase. How best to further develop our coal measures, and insure an increased output at reasonable cost to consumers, will, I hope, not be overlooked.
Our leading quartz-mines continue to yield satisfactory returns, while the impetus given to alluvial mining by the improvements made in the machinery and appliances for the recovery of gold from the river-beds and flats of the Middle Island has been the means of affording employment to a large number of men.
As extensive areas of agricultural land in the Middle Island are expected to prove payably auriferous, the question of the best means to be adopted for extracting the gold in such manner as not to leave these areas thereafter unfit for agricultural purposes is one requiring careful attention.
My Ministers recognise the necessity for a more vigorous prosecution of railway-construction, especially between centres of population, and proposals regarding this important matter will be placed before you.
The establishment of a Pacific cable has also engaged the attention of my Advisers, and no effort has been, or will be, spared to undertake the colony’s share of its responsibility in connection with this Imperial work.
During the recess, several large and representative meetings have been held by the Natives, and from them, through their chiefs, every assurance of loyalty and desire for the good of both races has been made to me.
Measures affecting the Native race, and dealing with their lands, will be laid before you.
I commend these several matters to your serious consideration and attention, and trust that the guidance and blessing of the Almighty may enable your labours to be fraught with good to the people of our colony and the great Empire to which we belong.
By Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1900, No 55
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