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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 thereto 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. XIX. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1872. No. 10
Speech of His Honor the Superintendent on opening the Twenty-second Session of the Wellington Provincial Council.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council,—
After the inconvenience to which the representatives of the province have patiently submitted for the last eight years, from the want of any accommodation beyond what may have been afforded by casual lodgings, it is a satisfaction to me to be able to convene you in a council chamber appropriated to your own use. The Provincial Government had indeed hoped that the chamber would by this time have been completed in a manner more suitable for your reception; but it was really found impracticable to press forward the work more speedily than has been done. Great, however, as is my satisfaction at being thus enabled to relieve you from personal inconvenience and furnish you with the accommodation suitable for a body of representatives, there are other considerations which characterize and stamp the change, and upon these I congratulate you. During the years of doubt and wandering to which I have referred, the inhabitants of the province have constantly had presented to them the desirability of abandoning their provincial institutions in exchange for some form of self-management under the immediate control of the central government. The removal of the Seat of Government of the colony to the chief town of the province appeared to many minds to offer a favorable opportunity for effecting such a change. After, however, the manner in which you encouraged, not to say urged, me to incur a large expenditure for the purpose of erecting buildings in which your provincial institutions might be more suitably and efficiently administered, I am bound to believe that you have carefully considered and decided not to break with the past, but to abide by the spirit of your Constitution. Whilst I, for one, would not have obstinately opposed a general determination, deliberately formed, to pursue an opposite policy, because I believe that the most perfect theoretical form of constitution is only of value so far and so long as it is appreciated and kept in working order by its possessors; yet I, at the same time, assure you that I will faithfully aid you to carry out your views, now that you have arrived at an ultimate decision. I further admit that recent proposals have shown that you have had the sagacity to understand the meaning of the fable which exposes the folly of prematurely abandoning the possession of a substance. At the same time you must allow me to frankly state my opinion on this occasion of the renewal of your allegiance to...
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1872, No 10
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