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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 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. XXII. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1875. No. 16.
Speech of His Honor the Superintendent on Proroguing the Twenty-Eighth Session of the Provincial Council.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council—
I have already given assent to a Bill entitled
“An Act to appropriate the Revenue of the Province of Wellington for a term commencing from the first day of April, 1875, and ending the thirty-first day of May, 1875.”
I now, on behalf of His Excellency the Governor, assent to the following Bills, viz.:
“An Act to authorise the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington to sell part of the Wellington Harbour Reserves to the Corporation of the City of Wellington.”
“An Act to amend an Act of the Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington intituled ‘The Wanganui Reserves Management Act, 1874.’”
“An Act to bring ‘The Municipal Corporations Waterworks Act, 1872,’ into operation in and for the Borough of Wellington, in the Province of Wellington.”
“An Act to enable the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington to sell Town Acre No. 671, in the City of Wellington, to be used as a site for a Church.”
“An Act to authorise the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington to sell a certain block of Land in the City of Wellington.”
“An Act to regulate the System of Impounding in Districts proclaimed under ‘The Local Boards Act, 1873.’”
“An Act to provide for the Qualification of Members of the Wellington Education Board.”
“An Act to Appropriate the Revenue of the Province of Wellington for the period commencing the first day of April, 1875, and ending the 31st day of March, 1876.”
I have reserved for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor a Bill intituled “An Act to provide for the Management of the Sandon Public Park Reserve.”
You have reduced the Estimates to the extent of £500 by rejecting the proposed item of £500 for the importation of coal. On the other hand, you have added items amounting in the aggregate to £1,527. The result is that the total authorised expenditure for the year 1875-76 will be £269,659 0s. 2d., instead of £268,632 0s. 2d. as proposed.
By not imposing further increases than you have done on the proposed annual expenditure you have, I believe, acted prudently, for it will require great exertion to obtain the amount of income requisite for the performance of the public services authorised to be provided for in the Appropriation Act as passed.
Indeed, the spectacle presented to our view over New Zealand at the present time, is that of the constituted local authorities struggling to obtain sufficient money for various important public objects, whilst extensive revenues are being easily collected and readily absorbed by the...
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1875, No 16
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🏘️ Speech of His Honor the Superintendent on Proroguing the Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government22 May 1875
Provincial Council, Legislation, Appropriation, Wellington
- His Honor the Superintendent