Southland Provincial Gazette – 1869 – No. 32

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✨ Provincial Council Address and Reply



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relief from a burden which years of pressure have rendered well nigh intolerable, I have no doubt that the proposition will meet with your most careful consideration; and I hope your deliberations may be so guided by Almighty God, that they may be productive of lasting benefits to the people you have been elected to serve.

WILLIAM WOOD,
Superintendent.

REPLY TO HIS HONOR'S ADDRESS.

"The Council agrees with your Honor that its meeting on this occasion possesses peculiar importance.

"The Council regrets the continued, and of late largely increased, financial embarrassment of the province, and concurs with your Honor that vigorous and decisive action is absolutely necessary in the present crisis.

"The Council regrets to learn from your Honor's address that the floating liabilities of the province amount to such a very large sum, and that the salaries of the public servants are so long in arrear, and that the revenue from all sources is wholly insufficient to provide for the debt charges, and at the same time satisfactorily carry out the functions of Government.

"The Council fully recognizes the necessity of calmly reviewing our present position, and of giving the most serious attention and mature consideration to the Commissioners' report on reunion with Otago, or any other remedial measure that may be suggested, and trusts that the action now taken may at the earliest possible period lead to permanent relief from our present humiliating position.

"The Council hopes that its deliberations may be so guided as to be productive of lasting benefit to the people of this part of the Colony.

"JAMES WILSON, Chairman."

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Southland, by CRAIG AND CO., of Invercargill, N.Z.; Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.



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🏛️ Opening Address by the Government (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Provincial Council, Financial Crisis, Re-union with Otago, Bluff Harbour, Emigration
  • WILLIAM WOOD, Superintendent

🏛️ Reply to His Honor's Address

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Provincial Council, Financial Crisis, Re-union with Otago, Public Servants, Debt Charges
  • JAMES WILSON, Chairman