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SOUTHLAND
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. L.] FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1862. [No. 31.
ADDRESS
OF
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE
PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND,
ON OPENING THE THIRD SESSION OF
THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,
22nd October 1862.
Gentlemen of the Provincial Council—
I HAVE the pleasure to congratulate you on the prosperous condition of the finances of this Province.
At the end of the last year, a balance of above £13,500 remained in the Treasury. The Revenue since that period has exceeded the estimate then formed. The Territorial Revenue for the nine months ending 30th September last, has amounted to nearly £41,000; the Ordinary Revenue to £5236. The whole Revenue for nine months amounted in round numbers to £59,700. The estimated expenditure for the same period was £55,000; the actual expenditure has amounted to £44,200, being nearly £11,000 less than the sum voted in the Appropriation Ordinance. At the same time, however, an expenditure has been made in some departments which was found to be indispensable to maintain their efficiency, and is largely in excess of the specific votes for those departments. The particulars of those payments will be fully explained when the subject comes under your consideration.
The available balance in the Treasury on 30th September last, amounted in round numbers to £15,500.
The Revenue, then, has been steadily increasing. A large Territorial Revenue can be safely relied on for the ensuing year, seeing that a large extent of excellent land is in process of survey. A large increase may be safely calculated on in the Ordinary Revenue. The Customs Revenue, in particular, is increasing rapidly. For example—in the year ending 30th September 1861, the gross amount paid here amounted to £4411; in the year ending 30th September 1862 to £8386; in the quarter ending 30th September 1861, the Provincial proportion amounted to £426—in quarter ending 30th September 1862, to £1123.
In the session of the General Assembly which has lately terminated, I endeavoured to obtain a change of the name of this Town. Its present name is objectionable for various reasons; and I believed that an alteration to one more euphonious and appropriate would meet the wishes and gratify the good taste of the people of Southland. A name was suggested which combined those attributes, and the adoption of which would be a memorial of the gratitude which Southland, in common with the other New Provinces of New Zealand, owes to the present Secretary of State for the Colonies, through whose interposition it has come to pass that the energetic and repeated attempts to subvert the Act which authorised the constitution of the New Provinces have been overruled, and altogether extinguished by two Acts passed in the two last Sessions of the Imperial Parliament, and
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Southland Provincial Gazette 1862, No 31
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🏘️ Address by the Superintendent of Southland
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government22 October 1862
Finances, Revenue, Expenditure, Customs, Land Survey
- His Honor the Superintendent