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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature hereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Provincial Secretary
VOL. II.] MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1855. [No. 2.]
SPEECH OF HIS HONOR ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, ESQ., ON CLOSING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,
March 13th, 1855.
Mr Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council—
Having assented to your several measures, I cannot close this Session without expressing my regret, that owing to the destruction of the offices of the Provincial Government, (including the Council Chamber), and the refusal of the party in charge of Government House to place that building at my disposal, you should have been subjected to grave inconvenience—public business seriously impeded, and the Session unnecessarily protracted.
The animus which dictated that refusal was rendered sufficiently manifest by the fact, that at the very time that the Provincial Government and Legislature were denied the temporary occupation of a tenantless house, offices belonging to the Ordnance Department were by the same party placed at the disposal of a Joint Stock Banking Company.
But I regret this unseemly attempt to thwart and obstruct the constituted authorities of the Province, chiefly because it has occasioned the loss of public documents which might otherwise have been saved.
It is however, satisfactory to find, that through the kind consideration of the committee of the Atheneum in granting this hall, you have been enabled to continue your sittings, and to pass many measures of deep interest to this Province.
If your first Session was mainly distinguished by your adoption of the principle of Ministerial Responsibility—the present is marked by a measure which will probably exercise a still more important bearing upon the future of this Province.
Considering the difficulties with which the question of Education is in all countries surrounded—the differences of opinion which in every community exist in regard to it—and remembering how completely the action of the Home Go-
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1855, No 2
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🏛️ Speech of His Honor Isaac Earl Featherston on Closing the Second Session of the Provincial Council
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration13 March 1855
Provincial Council, Government House, Education, Ministerial Responsibility
- Isaac Earl Featherston (Esquire), Delivered closing speech
- William Fitzherbert, Provincial Secretary