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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.
JAMES MACANDREW, Superintendent.
VOL. IV.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1860. [No. 114.
ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT,
ON OPENING THE NINTH SESSION OF THE
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE
OF OTAGO, 11TH APRIL 1860.
GENTLEMEN—I have to congratulate you on having been brought together to assume the important functions devolved upon you by your fellow-colonists, under circumstances so auspicious as those presented by the present position and future prospects of this Province.
I can safely say that never has any Provincial Legislature in New Zealand assembled under circumstances more propitious for practical usefulness, than does the Provincial Council of Otago on this its ninth session. Whether we regard the fact that the financial condition and public credit of the Province are such as to enable us if so disposed to initiate and carry through extensive operations in the shape of Immigration and of Public Works; or the no less important fact that we are unfettered by those strong personal feelings and party differences which have unhappily been so prejudicial to the interests of the other Provinces in New Zealand; I think I may well indulge in the language of congratulation. And, Gentlemen, in so doing, allow me to express an earnest hope that, while in the nature of things, where freedom of thought and of action are enjoyed, men must necessarily differ in opinion, yet that among us a spirit of mutual forbearance shall always prevail; and that differences, if they do arise, may not be permitted to merge into faction, but will be kept strictly subordinate to the public interest.
Gentlemen, it is not my intention, nor that of my advisers, to initiate much in the way of legislation during the present session. It is an easy matter to load the Statute Book with Ordinances. It appears to me that the tendency has perhaps been heretofore rather too much in this direction: let us aim at having few laws, and those only of a practical kind. There are several of this nature which will be submitted for your approval, and which, I doubt not, will receive all due deliberation at your hands. The principal business of the session will be the disposal of the public money.
There is now in the Provincial Treasury the sum of ........................................ £39,369 9 10
The estimated Revenue for the remaining half of the current financial year is—
From Land ......... £40,000
From Customs...... 3937
From other sources 2300
.... 46,237 0 0
Making a total to 30th September next of ........ 85,606 9 10
From this will have to be de-
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1860, No 114
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🏘️ Address of the Superintendent to the Provincial Council of Otago
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government11 April 1860
Otago, Provincial Council, Superintendent, Address, Legislation, Finance, Immigration, Public Works
- James Macandrew (Superintendent), Delivered address to the Provincial Council
- James Macandrew, Superintendent