✨ Superintendent's Address
SOUTHLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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Vol. 2.] THURSDAY, 24TH MARCH, 1864. [No. 11.
ADDRESS
OF THE SUPERINTENDENT ON OPENING
THE SIXTH SESSION OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF SOUTHLAND.
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council.
The disallowance by His Excellency the Governor of the Appropriation Ordinance passed in the last Session of this Council has rendered a meeting of the Council at this time necessary, in order to make provision for carrying on the public service of the Province.
The very large expenditure on our roads during the past fourteen months has swelled the expenditure to a sum far in excess of the revenue, and at the present moment our floating liabilities amount to about £100,000. The necessity for continuing a further large expenditure on roads is absolutely unavoidable, and it is obvious that we cannot hope to meet those liabilities and the current expenditure with the revenue for the current year. The land sales for the past four months have been very much under the estimate made in October. The Customs’ Revenue, which continues steadily to increase, although not quite equal to the proportion for a financial quarter according to the estimate formed for the year, yet at the same rate of increase will, within the financial year, amply fulfil the anticipations expressed in October last. The gross amount of Customs Revenue in the quarter ending 31st December, 1863, was slightly under £20,000.
I believe that a large amount of land revenue may be expected to accrue during the summer and autumn, as I learn by a return from the Land Office that an area of about 90,000 acres is now open for sale. In the Hundreds proclaimed last year the maps of 14,000 acres of land, equal to the best in the Province, will shortly be completed—the survey of the other parts is pressed rapidly forward; I trust that from these
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Southland Provincial Gazette 1864, No 11
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🏘️ Address of the Superintendent on Opening the Sixth Session of the Provincial Council of Southland
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government24 March 1864
Provincial Council, Budget, Revenue, Roads, Land Sales, Customs Revenue
- His Excellency the Governor
- Mr. Speaker
- Gentlemen of the Provincial Council