NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

HENRY BUNNY,
PROVINCIAL SECRETARY.

VOL. XVIII. THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1871. No. 17.

Speech of His Honor the Superintendent on proroguing the twenty-first Session of the Provincial Council.

MR SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,—

I have already assented to

An Act to Appropriate the Revenue of the Province of Wellington for a term commencing on the first day of April, 1871, and ending on the thirty-first day of May, 1871.

I have now further to inform you that I have, in the name, and on behalf of the Governor of New Zealand, assented to the following Acts, viz:—

An Act to amend the first clause of the Licensing Amendment Act, Session 13, No. 10.

An Act to grant a piece of land at Wanganui to the Freemasons.

An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to District Highways.

An Act to provide for the erection of Toll Gates on main roads in the Province of Wellington.

An Act to provide a system of Education for the Province of Wellington.

An Act to enable the Superintendent to enter into contracts for the construction of Tramways.

An Act to prohibit Burials in a certain block of land in the Township of Foxton.

An Act to declare the Trusts of certain lands in the Township of Masterton, in the Wairarapa District, and to provide for the appointment of Trustees therein.

An Act to declare the Trusts of certain lands in the Township of Greytown, in the Wairarapa District, and to provide for the appointment of Trustees therein.

An Act to appropriate the Revenue of the Province of Wellington for the term commencing on first day of April, 1871, and ending on thirty-first March, 1872.

And also that I have reserved for the assent of the Governor,

An Act to enable the Superintendent to deal with the Reclaimed Land in the City of Wellington.

But the several acts you have passed are not to be taken as the only gauge of the extent and importance of the work of the session; for in addition to those measures, you have passed several important resolutions, accompanied with certain draft bills, which you have requested me, as Superintendent, to procure the passing of in the next session of the General Assembly. Whilst I assure you that I shall use my best endeavors to carry out your wishes, I take the opportunity of stating that, if I entirely fail to obtain the assent of the Parliament of the colony to the measures which you thus desire me to bring forward, I see no prospect of my being able to render you any further service in the capacity of Superintendent; and permit me here to observe, that the office would cease to be desirable if I could not promote the progress of the province.

In reviewing the legislative labors of your present session, I note with particular satisfaction that, notwithstanding the difference of views as to the basis of rating, you have manfully faced the question of direct taxation, and have thus adopted for the province a policy of self help similar in character, if not in degree, to the policy of self-reliance, which was so fortunately inaugurated for the colony, as a whole, in 1864; and it is a further gratification that your measures with regard to district roads, main roads, tramways, and railways, constitute the complement of the policy of the present Colonial Government.