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Surveyor, I shall at once direct his attention to the subject of the alterations you recommend in the route from this place to Riverton; and I will bring under the notice of the General Government the necessity for appointing a Resident Magistrate as you also recommend.

There are many subjects for legislation which will engage the attention of the Government before this Council shall re-assemble. Amongst those, none is of more importance, in its issues for the future of the inhabitants of this Province, than that of Education. At our next meeting we shall have to determine how far the Government is to undertake the responsibility of educating the young, or whether it will require that the parent shall educate his child, and assist him when he cannot do so otherwise. There may be a difference of opinion as regards the manner and extent of Government assistance, but there can be none as regards the duty of the Parent:—it is a duty of which no sophistry can divest him. I rely on your giving to this subject the attention which its importance demands, so that in the next session we may be enabled to adopt a measure that will not, on the one hand, press the action of the Government so far as to undermine that spirit of Independence and self-reliance which is the very life of a free State, nor, on the other, permit the young to grow up around us—as I fear too many do in these Colonies—little better than practical heathens.

The business of this Session having come to a close, it is my duty to release you from further attendance; and I now declare this Council to stand prorogued accordingly.

INVERCARGILL TOWN BOARD.

I, MATTHEW PRICE, Returning Officer appointed by his Honor the Superintendent of the Province of Southland to preside at a meeting of the Electors entitled to vote for members for the town of Invercargill in the Provincial Council of Southland, assembled on the 3rd day of September 1861, at 12 o’clock noon, at the Schoolhouse, Invercargill, for the purpose of electing 9 persons to be members of the Town Board of Invercargill, hereby certify that the following persons were duly elected by a majority of votes, viz.:

JOHN BLACKLOCK
WILLIAM GARTHWAITE
JOHN CHEYNE
LACHLAN KERR GRANT
DAVID MITCHELL
JOSEPH EDWARD CLARKE
WILLIAM HENDERSON CALDER
WILLIAM LAND
JAMES GRIEVE.

M. Price,
Returning Officer.

Given under my hand,
at Invercargill, this 3rd day of September 1861.

PROCLAMATION

By JAMES A. R. MENZIES, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Southland.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, entitled “Superintendent’s Deputy Act, 1856,” it is among other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province to appoint such person as he may think fit, being a registered elector in such Province, to be his Deputy, and as such to perform and exercise all the acts and powers (except such powers as are conferred by the Constitution Act, 15 and 16 Vic., c. 72) which may be exercised and performed by such Superintendent; and the acts of such Deputy-Superintendent, so far as authorised by such proclamation, shall be as effectual in all respects as if performed by the Superintendent himself.

And whereas I am about to be absent from the Province for a short period, and it is therefore necessary that I should appoint a registered elector to be my Deputy, to act during my absence, as provided by the said Act;

Now, therefore, I, the said Superintendent, do hereby proclaim that I have appointed

HENRY MCCULLOCH, Esq.,

a registered elector of the Province of Southland, to be my Deputy, and as such to perform and exercise, during my absence from the Province, all the acts and powers (except such powers as are conferred by the Constitution Act, 15 and 16 Vic., c. 72) which may be exercised and performed by me.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Southland, this fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

(L.S.)

J. A. R. MENZIES,
Superintendent of the Province of Southland.

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