Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1857 – No. 17

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✨ Provincial Council Address and Financial Abstract

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cil, and in deference to the strong opinion of the community, I have reduced the boat-ing charges on shipping, without making a corresponding reduction on landing goods.

The Loan Bill must necessarily be reserved for the signification of his Excellency the Governor's pleasure thereon, and I trust to be enabled during the time that will intervene before the result can be known, to obtain designs and specifications on the erection of a bridge over the Waiwakaiho River.

In addition to those measures already assented to, it will be necessary during the next session, to lay before you bills for amending the Land Regulations, and for providing new lines of Road where necessary, and compensating the owners and occupiers of lands affected by them.

I am in communication with the General Government respecting the appointment of Commissioners to deal with the Native Reserves, and also respecting the acquisition from the Natives by lease of the pasture lands on our southern coast boundary, and should my applications be successful, they will have the effect of materially developing the resources of the Province.

With regard to our general relations with the Native inhabitants, whilst I am fully alive to the necessity of the utmost exertion to induce them to adopt our laws, and assist in enforcing them, I also feel that any action that may be attempted by this Province without the support of the General Government will only tend to increase the contempt for our authority, which a long course of misrule has engendered in the Native mind. It is my intention to enter into correspondence with this Excellency's Government on this subject, and I hope with your advice and assistance, to be able to take measures which may be consistent with the views of the General Government, and tend ultimately to bring the Native population of this Province under British law. In the meantime, arrangements have been made for the translation into the Native tongue of such portions of our Ordinances as can be considered applicable to the Native race in its present condition, that they may have an opportunity of ascertaining what our laws are before they are required to adopt them.

In taking my leave, I beg to thank you for your advice and assistance—and I now declare this Council to be prorogued to the 7th of October next.

G. CUTFIELD,
Superintendent.
New Plymouth,
12th August, 1857.

ABSTRACT of the REVENUE and EXPENDITURE of the Provincial Government of New Plymouth from the 1st January to the 30th June, 1857, inclusive.

REVENUE.

	£	s.	d.
Cash in hand 1st January		4	14
Customs to 31st May		824	5
Do contribution to boat service to 31st May		125	0
Land Fund to 31st May		916	13
Police—Carriage of Southern Mail to 31st March		21	0
Pound Fees		11	0
Licenses—Auctioneers	80	0	0
Publicans	240	0	0
Pasturage	53	9	0
		373	9
Registration of Deeds		40	6
Miscellaneous—Rent of portion of building in Brougham-street	5	0	0
Expenses on Town Sections advertised for sale for arrears of Road rates	1	1	0
Sale of Plans of Hua Village site	7	0
		6	8
Repayments for assisted passages from England	116	17	4
Do do from Melbourne	48	0	0
		164	17
		£2487	14