✨ Provincial Address
THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF WESTLAND.
Published by Authority.
All 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 may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s command,
CHARLES WOOLCOCK,
Provincial Secretary.
HOKITIKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1875.
ADDRESS OF HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT ON OPENING THE THIRD SESSION OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL—
In meeting you at the termination of the first year of our existence as a Province, it appears to me that one of our first considerations should be an examination of our Financial position now, as compared with the same period last year. In doing this I do not propose to enter into any detailed examination of our Receipts and Expenditure, as this will more properly come before you when all the accounts have been laid on the table, and the Financial Statement submitted by the Provincial Treasurer, but I will merely glance at the general result arrived at.
On reference to the Statement of Assets and Liabilities, I find that at the commencement of 1874, the unsatisfied liabilities of the Province amounted to £52,765, which with the amount of £9,125, appropriated by the Council in excess of the Estimated Receipts, made a total of £61,890 to be provided for over and above our ordinary revenue. To this sum must also be added the difference between the Estimated and Actual Receipts for Land Revenue, the only item of Receipts which shows any special reduction for the year amounting to £7000, thus increasing the liabilities to £68,890. To meet this large deficiency we had assets consisting of balance in Bank, £4858; Estimated Receipts from proceeds of "Westland Loan Act, 1873," £48,710; and due by Nelson for maintenance of prisoners, £750, making a total of £54,318, still leaving a
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1875, No 4
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🏘️ Address by the Superintendent of Westland Province
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government9 February 1875
Provincial Council, Financial Position, Westland Province
- Charles Woolcock, Provincial Secretary