Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1857 – No. 17

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NEW PLYMOUTH.

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VOL. V.] NEW PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1857. [No. 17

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

WEDNESDAY, 12th AUGUST, 1857.

THE Superintendent prorogued the Provincial Council at 5.30, P.M., and delivered the following

ADDRESS.

Mr Speaker,

and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council—

It is with much pleasure that I now relieve you from your duties, and in doing so I tender you my sincere thanks for the attention you have given to the various matters which have been brought under your consideration.

As we are now at the close of the session in which the system of responsible administration has been first introduced, I must not allow the occasion to pass without expressing my sense of the great advantage to the Province arising from the harmonious relation and united action of the Superintendent and Provincial Council which is thereby secured.

That some of the measures introduced by the Government should have met with more or less opposition in the Council was to be expected, and might be deemed desirable, as the best guarantee for the soundness of our public measures, is a full and free discussion of them in this Council. But it is a matter for congratulation that the Executive Council, first nominated by me, should have passed through the ordeal of a first session with no other change than that which was rendered necessary by the appointment of Mr Parris as Resident Land Purchase Commissioner—an appointment which I trust will result in our obtaining a further supply of land.

Many of the Ordinances you have passed during the present session will, I believe, be beneficial to the social and material interests of the Province. They are the—

  1. Roads and Bridges
  2. Deeds Registration
  3. Appropriation
  4. Education Commission
  5. Slaughter House
  6. Dog Registration
  7. Licensing Amendment
  8. Loan
  9. Crown Grants Endorsement
  10. Public Reserves
  11. Empowering.

Three bills have been laid before you and subsequently abandoned—

Town Sales Annulling
Custody of Crown Grants and Fencing

Two others, the Cart Tax and American Blight, have been rejected by you.

The first of the Ordinances which I have enumerated, the Roads and Bridges, is as you are aware from the despatch laid on the table yesterday, disallowed by the Governor, some provisions of the clauses im-



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🏘️ Address of the Superintendent to the Provincial Council

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
12 August 1857
Provincial Council, Superintendent, Legislation, Ordinances, New Plymouth
  • Parris (Mr), Appointed Resident Land Purchase Commissioner

  • The Superintendent