✨ Superintendent's Address to Provincial Council
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
W. CARGILL, Superintendent.
Vol. III.] FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1857. [No. 62.
ADDRESS
OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
AT OPENING THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL, 26TH OCTOBER, 1857.
GENTLEMEN,—I have great satisfaction in again seeing you assembled in Council, and in recurring to your advice and assistance.
In pursuance of the resolutions passed in last session, I lost no time in taking such measures as seemed to be most suitable for obtaining from Great Britain, as early as practicable, an amount of immigration of labour commensurate to our immediate wants, and to the means you provided. The first arrival may shortly be expected.
I congratulate you on the probable success of the negotiations between the General Government of New Zealand and the Imperial Government for carrying out the financial scheme adopted by the General Assembly. In that event the whole proceeds arising from the disposal of the public lands within the Province will be available for Provincial purposes, subject to a payment to the General Government of £4000 a-year for thirty years.
Gentlemen, Bills will be submitted to your consideration for various important purposes; to which I doubt not that you will give your earnest attention.
A considerable proportion of the large amount placed at my disposal for the service of the past year has not been expended. The Estimates for the current year will be laid before you. They have been prepared with a due regard to the efficient but economical performance of the public service.
I have to recommend to your consideration what provision should be made for the salaries of the teachers of our public schools. If a well-conditioned must be a well-educated, people, it becomes of importance to lay a sure foundation for the means of education being gradually established and enlarged throughout the Province, with the growth and progress of its population.
I regret that notwithstanding the Resolutions then passed relative to stated communication with Australia and with the sister Provinces of New Zealand, by means of steam vessels, and the steps consequently taken by me, that object has not yet been accomplished, but I am hopeful that it will be effected at a very early period. In a matter so deeply affecting the interests of this Province, and of the whole colony, and in which the General Government is bound, at whatever cost, to do justice equally to this as to the other Provinces, no efforts will be spared on my part.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1857, No 62
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🏘️ Address of His Honor the Superintendent at Opening the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government26 October 1857
Provincial Council, Immigration, Public Lands, Education, Steam Vessels
- W. Cargill, Superintendent