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NEW ZEALAND.
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. XIV. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1870. No. 673.
ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT AT THE PROROGATION OF THE COUNCIL
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council,
The business of the session having now come to a termination, I have to express my earnest hope that the important deliberations in which you have been engaged may be productive of those benefits to the Province at large which I am sure is the desire of us all.
I have also to assure you that it shall be my endeavor to give effect so far as practicable to the various resolutions which you have transmitted to me. With respect to many of the sums which, at your request, have been placed upon the Supplementary Estimates, it will of course be obvious that unless the receipts for the year should turn out to be in excess of the estimated revenue, such sums can only be expended to the extent to which the expenditure under the main estimates is likely to fall short of the amount voted.
On behalf of the Governor, I have assented to the following Bills passed by you, viz.:
- Cemeteries Management Ordinance 1870
- Management of Rivers Ordinance 1870
- Thistle Prevention Ordinance 1862 Repeal Ordinance 1870
- High School Ground Ordinance 1870
- Hospitals Ordinance 1870
- The Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway Agreement Validation Ordinance 1870
- Otago Representation Ordinance 1870
- Licensed Theatres Ordinance 1870
- Impounding Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1870
- Appropriation Ordinance 1870
The Road Boards Ordinance 1870
Taieri Ferry Land Sale Ordinance 1870
The following Bills are reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon:
- District Roads Compulsory Land Taking Ordinance 1870.
- Oamaru Racecourse Reserve Management Ordinance 1870.
- Lawrence Athenæum and Mechanics Institute Reserve Leasing Ordinance 1870.
- Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway Land Compulsory Taking Act 1870.
- Tokomairiro School Reserve and Glebe Land Sales Ordinance 1870.
- Roads Diversion Ordinance 1870.
Gentlemen—As this is probably the last occasion on which I shall have the honor of addressing you, perhaps I may be permitted to say a few words expressive of my own individual views with regard to a question which, sooner or later, must be grappled with—one which deeply affects our future position. I allude to our present style or system of Government.
Gentlemen—The conviction has long forced itself upon my mind that our present system of Government, both Colonial and Provincial, is unnecessarily costly and complex—there is far too much of state about it. The fact that, amidst all its depression, Otago has actually contributed to the General Government during the past year £137,000, not one farthing of which has been expended within the Province, must, I think, speak for itself as showing that some change is absolutely imperative in this direction.
As regards the system that has grown up among ourselves, it appears to me to be, to a great extent, incompatible with a political organisation so limited in its sphere of action as a New Zealand Provincial Government.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1870, No 673
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