✨ Provincial Memorial
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(Province of Taranaki).
Published by Authority.
Vol. X.] NEW PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1862. [No. 17.]
To His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
Governor of New Zealand, Vice Admiral
of the same, &c., &c.
The Memorial of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province
of Taranaki, humbly showeth,—
That the present position of this Province is most deplorable; we had hoped
that our privations sufferings and losses were known and recognised by your
Excellency and your advisers, and we had looked forward with confidence to the
future.
From your Excellency’s silence with regard to us in your Address to the
Assembly we appear to be beyond your sympathy for the past, or hopes for the
future, and feel bound to conclude that your Excellency and your advisers consider our present, to be in so satisfactory a position that our past and our future
require at your Excellency’s hands neither regret or anxiety. We therefore
think it is our duty to represent to your Excellency what an increasing burthen
this Province is to the Colony, and that in justice to this Province and the Colony
a period should be put to the present demoralizing influences on the population.
Since March, 1860, a great portion of the population has derived its main
support from Militia pay supplemented by almost eleemosynary relief in cases of
large families, this latter source of expense has been and is still increasing from
the circumstance that those heads of families whose pride has hitherto prevented
them from applying, find themselves with their private means exhausted and their
families dependent on them for the means of existence; sons neglect their duties
to their fathers and families leaving them to get through the difficulties that are
before them, and although some bright examples of kindly and family feeling
have been shown in the war, the vices of human nature are more developed than the
virtues, in a period of privation, suffering, and a disorganized social condition.
We earnestly press on the favorable consideration of your Excellency the
following propositions for determining the present state of the population of this
Province.
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Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1862, No 17
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🏛️ Memorial to Governor Grey regarding Taranaki's plight
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