✨ Provincial Government Address
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.] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1859. [No. 98.
Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 1859.
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication of the following Documents, &c.
By order,
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.
ADDRESS
OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
ON OPENING THE EIGHTH SESSION
OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF THE
PROVINCE OF OTAGO, 25TH OCTOBER, 1859.
GENTLEMEN—
I HAVE to congratulate you on the substantial progress of this Settlement since your last Session; and still more do I congratulate you on the unmistakable evidence, under the blessing of God, of continued progress.
As evidence of this progress, I refer you, in the first instance, to the state of the Finances; in respect of which the results of last year are very gratifying. The estimated amount of three-eighths of our Customs Revenue (assigned to the Province) was £5062, which, added to the Licenses, Dog Tax, and other small items belonging to the Province, made in all £5862 estimated. But the actual receipts were £7965, the increase being mainly in the item of Customs. The Customs, estimated last year at £5062, are estimated for the current year at £7875, making, with the addition of the other items referred to, a total of £9075, which, on the principles of economy hitherto practised, should be fully equal to all the expenses of Government, together with such sums as the Council may see fit to appropriate in aid of Education and kindred objects, the Land Fund being held rigidly sacred to its own purposes.
The Land Fund was last year estimated at £25,000; but it largely exceeded that amount, and to this the Settlement is mainly indebted for its present favourable position. The estimated amount for the present year is £60,000, but the remark of the head of the Land Department will be noted to the effect, that last year £20,000 was taken for Town allotments sold in Dunedin, and that the available allotments being now all sold, the contributions from this source are exhausted. It will be further noted, that the sums forming a first charge upon this Fund are—
1st, The payment to the General Government on account of its Loan, guaranteed by the Crown, which is ... £4650
2nd, Expenses of administration by Waste Land Board ... 2605
3rd, Fixed salaries and contingencies of the Survey and Engineer’s Department ... 3204
Being in all: ... £10,459
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1859, No 98
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🏘️ Superintendent's Address to Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government25 October 1859
Address, Provincial Council, Finances, Land Fund, Customs Revenue
- W. Cargill, Superintendent
- John Logan, Clerk to Superintendent