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creased, the estimated expenditure for the
important public works and undertakings just
enumerated has been largely increased. Whilst
on the subject of the estimates, I may state
(and it is with satisfaction) that the General
Government, upon my representation of the
efforts in various directions of local rating
which the Provincial Council were about to be
invited to make, have removed the embargo
placed on your land revenue from the 1st March
last. I have thus been enabled to defray the
departmental charges sanctioned by you up to
31st March, and a balance remains in the
bank at the credit of the year’s revenue which
will, I anticipate, be nearly sufficient to pay
similar charges for the next two months, so
soon as your sanction shall have been given.
I have not referred specially to the subjects
of immigration, progress of railway surveys,
and road-making carried on in different parts
of the province under the General Government
auspices, because you will gather from the
immigration proposals and other reports
which are appended to and will be
printed with this speech a better conception of what has been done and is
doing in these respects, than could be fur-
nished in any other form by me, considering
that the administration is not provincial. If
an additional argument were required in favor
of stimulating immigration in this part of
the colony, it is furnished by the smallness of
the increase of the population of the pro-
vince as shown by the last census returns.
I have endeavored faithfully and earnestly
to place before you the state of the province,
and the remedial measures which the Govern-
ment proposes. It is a policy of self-help,
direct taxation, and progress, in which the
present Government entirely believes. I am
sensible that a very large demand is about to
be made on the energies of the people of the
province, through you as their representatives
—you are, in fact, asked plainly to help your-
selves as the sole condition of your progress,
William Fitzherbert,
Superintendent.
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🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentFinancial, Budget, Debt, Revenue, Expenditure, Roads, Survey, Borrowing, Land, Valuation, Public Works, Immigration, Education, Highways, Tolls, Tramways, Railways
- William Fitzherbert, Superintendent