New Zealand Gazette – 1903 – No. 52

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✨ Parliamentary Opening Speech

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON. TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1903.

THE First Session of the Fifteenth 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,—

When I last addressed you the intelligence of His Majesty’s illness cast a gloom over our proceedings. Thanks to Almighty God, His Majesty’s health has been restored, and the Coronation ceremonies took place on the 9th August last, amid the general and enthusiastic rejoicing of his loyal and devoted subjects throughout our vast Empire.

When delivering my first Speech on the opening of Parliament I expressed the assurance that with careful administration and reasonable opportunities this colony had a great future before it; that I would visit the different parts of the colony, and obtain a personal knowledge of the richness of the soil, note the industrial and commercial enterprises, and the wealth and extent of the mineral deposits.

During my stay with you I have visited almost each and every part of this great and beautiful colony, and the favourable impressions first formed have been fully confirmed. I am proud to say that the prosperity I so much admired on my arrival on your hospitable shores has continued, and to-day I feel assured that the Colony of New Zealand is one of the most flourishing within the great British Empire.

On the 10th day of August next my original term of office expires. My Advisers, however, expressed the desire that I should remain for a longer period; and, believing it to be consonant with the general wish, I consented, and His Gracious Majesty prolonged my term of office.

The people of New Zealand have extended to me that loyal friendship that was to be expected from a colony so deeply imbued with devotion to their Sovereign and attachment to their Empire, and I have everywhere met with the warmest and most enthusiastic welcome in my travels throughout their boundaries.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1903, No 52

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🏛️ Opening Speech of the First Session of the Fifteenth Parliament

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated30 June 1903
KeywordsParliament, Opening Speech, Governor, Coronation, Prosperity
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