SUPERINTENDENT’S MEETING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 135, 14 February 1874, Page 2

SUPERINTENDENT’S MEETING.

Thb following is a copy of the Address presented to Hi* Honor the Superintendent, at a public meeting of the settlers, last night, in the Court House, at Gisborne ; together with Hi* Honor'* reply. The lateness of the hour when the meeting broke up, preclude* our report from appearing this morning.-— To His Honor the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland. May it please your Honor, We, the undersigned, appointed by a public meeting of the settlers of Poverty Bay as a committee to represent to your Honor the requirements of this district, beg to welcome your Honor on this your official visit to this Port, and respectfully to bring under your notice the following matter* which are’ regarded as being of vital importance to its future. “ The first subject to which we desire to draw your attention i* the improvement of the river harbor. We beg to represent that it should be thoroughly examined and reported on by a competent engineer, and that such works as he may recommend to render it safe and convenient for vessel* of draft corresponding to it* capabilities, be at once undertaken; that proper buoy* and guides be laid down, and sailing direction* published ; and especially that good and reliable moorings be fixed in the roadstead, on which large vessels may depend ; that additional wharf accommodat ion be provided; that a competent pilot be appointed, the absence of one in the past having been the main reason why English vessels have not loaded here; that a gaol and lock-up should be built without delay, none being at present in existence ; that a sum of money be granted towards the metalling and formation of the main roads sufficient to bring them into such a condition that they can thereafter be kept in repair by the Road Board out of ordinary revenue, that being at present impossible ; that addil ional provision be made for the educational wants of the district, the present being entirely inadequate, and that the whole of the rates raised in the district, (less expenses) should be spent in it; that a fair proportion of the immigrants which are being introduced into the province should be allotted to Poverty Buy.

Jas. Woodbine Johnson, James B. Poynter, W. Wilfred Wilson, William W. Carlile, Richard Kelly, and other*. To James Woodbine Johnson, Esquire, M.P.C., and the other Gentlemen signing the Address: — Gentlemen, —I thank you very sincerely for the cordial welcome you have given to me, and to the members of my Executive, who have accompanied me on this--our first official visit to your district. The matters which you have referred to in the address, just presented to me, have, most of them, already been brought under the notice of the Provincial Government; and we trust that we shall be assisted by the Provincial Council, and aided by the Government of the Colony, in carrying out the several public improvements to which you refer, and in giving effect to your desires in other matters of importance to your great and thriving district. J. Williamson, Superintendent. Gisborne, February 13, 1874.