CLOSE OF THE COUNCIL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 107, 17 April 1863, Page 2

CLOSE OF THE COUNCIL.

HIS HONOR’S ADDRESS

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Provincial Council — I thank you for the unremitting- care and attention you have devoted to the interests of the Public during the present Session, and I trust the measures you have passed will prove beneficial to the Province.

. Tlie Loan Act, together with the Resolution embodying your views respecting the leases of Runs for a period of fourteen years with a pre-emptive right of purchase, affords conclusive evidence of your desire to preserve a considerable extent of the Provincial Estate’as collateral security for the Public Creditor, while the setting apart of portions of the Waste Lands to be disposed of to agricultural Settlers on a system of deferred pay. ments shows that you are convinced of the advantages to be derived from the settlement of an industrious class of pom pic in the Province.

I trust the proposed changes in the administration of the Waste Lands will be favorably entertained by the General Assembly as well as by his Excellency’s Government. The following Bills passed by you this Session will shortly be submitted for his Excellency’s assent; — The Loan Act Appointment of Commissioners Wellington Debt Local Marine Board Deviation of Eoads Act Sheep and Scab Act Appropriation Act. . It will be my endeavor and that of the Executive to carry out to the best of our ability the views and wishes of this Council. And it affords us much satisfaction' to find that we possess in so great a degree the confidence of the intelligent and independent Members of which the Council of Hawke’s Bay is composed. I now declare this Council prorogued.