The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 63
Extract from Speech of His Honor the Superintendent of Wellington on opening his Provincial Council, 1862
Extract from Speech of His Honor the Superintendent of Wellington on opening his Provincial Council, 1862.
"You will be gratified to learn that this Province has at last been relieved both of the heavy expense, and of the mischievous obstructiveness of the Land Purchase Department; His Excellency the Governor having been pleased to devolve upon myself as Superintendent, the duty of purchasing such lands as the Natives may from time to time be disposed to alienate.