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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF TARANAKI).
Published by Authority.
VOL. IX. NEW PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1861. No. 8.
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
MONDAY, 10TH JUNE, 1861.
THE Superintendent opened the Tenth Session of the Provincial Council, at the Council Chamber, at 11 o'clock a.m., and delivered the following
ADDRESS.
MR SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,—
I have taken this early opportunity of calling you together that I may, as soon as possible, ascertain your views respecting the desirability of any change in the form of the Executive Government introduced in this Province since I last had the honor of being its Superintendent, and, if desirable, to determine the direction and extent of the alterations you propose. A Bill will be laid before you which has been framed to meet what I believe to be the views of the Council, and in so far as it requires your correction, I have no doubt we shall meet without difficulty on the subject. When this has been determined, other measures will be laid before you—some of a temporary nature, framed to meet the special circumstances we have been reduced to by the war, and before peace shall have been re-established in the province. My views in preparing these have been—
1st. To make use of the funds we have, the charitable aid subscribed, and such advances as we may obtain from the General Government, to provide homes of a removable description for the houseless in the Town, and of which they may derive the benefit on their farms at the end of the war.
2nd. To make provision for the execution of Public Works affording employment to the many who, when Militia pay and rations cease, will find themselves in want of the common necessaries of life, and, for some time, of the means of beginning a settler's life anew.
A copy of an application to the General Government for an advance for these purposes will be laid before you, and you will see that the application is made on the ground, amongst others, that the erection of buildings enabling refugees now at Nelson to return will relieve the General Government of the heavy expenditure now going on there for their maintenance.
One measure of a more permanent character will, I am sure, claim your earnest attention; it is on the subject of education, one at all times deserving of consideration, and more especially at the present time, when the population, from the necessities of the war, is huddled into the small space comprised within the lines of defence. About 200 acres of land, reserved for education, one at all times deserving of consideration, and more especially at the present time, when the population, from the necessities of the war, is huddled into the small space comprised within the lines of defence. About 200 acres of land, reserved for educational purposes by the Land Regulations which I prepared in 1855, now form the
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Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1861, No 8
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🏘️ Address of the Superintendent to the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government10 June 1861
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