✨ Provincial Council 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.
JAMES MACANDREW, Superintendent.
VOL. IV.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1860. [No. 128.
ADDRESS
OF
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT,
On Opening the Eleventh Session of the
Provincial Council, 12th Dec. 1860.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council,
In calling you together at this time, I regret that many among you will be put to serious inconvenience in consequence of your presence being required in the country at this particular season of the year—an inconvenience which to some extent might have been avoided had the Session been held two months ago. As it was, however, it was deemed unadvisable to call you together until the question of the price of land had been decided, inasmuch as it was impossible to have formed any estimate as to our future financial position while that question was pending.
In conformity with the Resolutions passed at your last Session, the sale of Land has been altogether suspended for a period of eight months; the result of which has been to reduce the balance in the Provincial Treasury's hands to some £9455 1s 9d. With a weekly expenditure averaging £2000, and the entire stoppage of the main source of income for so long a period, it is matter for congratulation, and exhibits very forcibly the healthy and buoyant position of the Province financially, that there should be any balance at all in the hands of the Treasurer. I trust, now that the Land Sales are resumed, the Provincial Exchequer will soon again be filled to overflowing, and that the numerous public works in progress throughout the country will be not only completed, but succeeded by others of greater magnitude and importance.
The total revenue of the Province from the 31st March last to the end of November, embracing a period of eight months, has been—
£71,864
Of which the General Government
has retained ........................ 16,700
Leaving at the balance of the Provincial Government ........................ 55,164
But for the stoppage of the Land Sales, the balance at our disposal for the period in question would probably have amounted to £100,000.
The total expenditure of the Province since 31st March last has amounted to £74,768 4s. 4d., which has been disposed of in round numbers as follows, viz.:—Public Works, as under, £36,480.
Salaries ....................................... £924 4 7
Court House and Council Hall and Fittings ....................................... 1131 0 6
Dunedin Jetty ............................. 547 6 4
" " Crane ............................. 74 5 0
Port Chalmers Jetty—Crane ......... 67 10 0
Invercargill " ............................. 706 14 0
Crane ....................................... 67 10 0
Pelichet Bay Jetty ....................... 155 8 0
Taieri Ferry Jetties ..................... 165 0 0
Riverton Jetty ............................. 521 1 0
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1860, No 128
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🏘️ Address of the Superintendent on opening the Eleventh Session of the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government12 December 1860
Provincial Council, Superintendent, Otago, Financial Statement, Public Works, Land Sales
- James Macandrew, Superintendent