PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH RELATIVE TO THE REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1862 Session I, G-06

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PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH RELATIVE TO THE REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AUGUST 27th, 1862, AND ORDERED TO BE PRINTED.

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To the Honourable the House of Representatives, in Parliament assembled. The Petition of the undersigned Freeholders, Householders, and others, Electors of the City of Christchurch: — Respectfully Sheweth— That your Petitioners, believing that the considei-ation of the locality for the Seat of the Government of these Islands will be brought prominently under the consideration of your Honorable House during the present Session, are induced to address you with a view to the expression of their opinion thereupon. Your Petitioners pray that in the event of the subject being brought under the notice of your Honorable House, you will consider the serious inconvenience resulting from the Seat of Government being placed at so inconvenient a distance from the centre of the Islands as it at present is. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that whatever may be the locality determined upon, it may be one that shall prevent the inconvenience your Petitioners have heretofore experienced by reason of the isolation of Auckland from the other Provinces, and that it may be fixed at some spot which shall afford convenience of access, facility for constant communication, and which shall not, as your Petitioners believe has been the case, prevent many of the Representatives of the people from attending to their Parliamentary duties, and so deprive the outlying districts of that fair share in the representation of the Colony to which they are entitled. And your Petitioners will, as in duty bound, over pray, &c, &c. W. Wilson, John Bennett, J. Ollivier, M.P.C., • Christopher Swinbourne, E. L. King, R. Swinbourue, John Whale, Edward Scott, Friend Lamb Robson, George Hollingworth, Edward Brocker, William Webb, George Froggatt, Richard Smith, Henry P. Blanchard, John Lucas, William Gladden, James Wilson, Thomas Pye, J. G. Ruddenklan, Barrett, Brothers, Francis Slater, Joseph Bailey, T. C. Farr, John El vines, W. 0. Cawkweli. William Atacke, Gilbert Butler, C. H. Bishop, John Birdsey, —. Chervier, Robert Watson, William Manning, Josh. Page, N Samuel Manning, Chris. Geo. Hodson, Hebdon James Rearrey. Robt. Anderson, George Pepper, Charles Newton, John Brown, P. B. Boulton, Peter Noonau, Charles River, John Noonan, H. W. Packer, John Huffery. Thos. B. Anis, M. Marks, Rogers Dracon, John Smith, James Kerr, M. B. Hart, Alex. Mills, Robert Warner, James Hair, E. C. McMillan, Robert Jones, Hugh Bennett, John Hughes, Bethel Ware, John King, Fred. Jenkins, John C. Angus, J. F. Ballard, . James Parker, Henry Moss, Joseph Bargrove, L. E. Nathan, John Tunmer, John W. Shackleton, Walter Gee, S. W. Pepperell, H. B. Grisbook, N. Stringer, Robert Waitt, James Johnston, Geo. R. Foblin, John H. Caton, Richard Jones, C. C. Arkmau, Edwin Coxhead, Alex. Matthews, F. Lane, W. D. Barnard, H. V. Fielder, T. C. Martin, John Atkinson, W. Pengellcy, John Dean, W. J. Adams, James Henry Tompkins, Charles Bonington. John Strangman,

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W. Haines, Walter Boker, Chas. Prebble, F. Lockyear, Josh. Rowley, Thomas McCulloch, Aaron Ayers, W. H. Lane, James Swinbourne, J. J. Wilson, William Ellmon, Thomas Free, J. Hosacke, Walter George Rutland, J. S. Hawley, John Fisher, Stephen Curtis, John Auckland. Wm. Middleweek, James Beeves, John Dix, , J. Hindmarsh, Charles Stagg, Antill A. Adley, Nicholas Martin. John Mills, T. J. Maliug, J. S. TurnbuH, D. Anderson, George Taylor, Thomas Guay, Coker and Ell, Jas. Collins, A. J. Raphael, William Marley, . A. Abrahams, Thomas R. Fisher, James Grant, Charles Green, W. D. Wood, W. Hobbs and Sons, R. Brunsden, George Dempsey, J. Ladbrooke, Jeremiah Newsome, Thos. Bruce, Fred. Le Cren, E. Goodacre, Thos. J. Duncan, Thos. Hitchins, Andrew Ritchie, James Rule, Geo. F. Chiswell, George Mallinson, C. Prince, John Townsend Parkinson, Hy. Jackman, Chas. E. Fooks, A. Whincop, John Suekling, William Pierce, S. Johnston, Rees William Walters, Barnard Simpson, W. Steer, Mark R. Tompkins, James Low, James Cotton, Henry Blake, William Calvert, Jno. S. Hobden, J. B. Banks, James Armstrong Wood, Chris. Can Dampier, James Wood, jun. Samuel Bealey, M.P.C Joseph Wood, Laurence Radford, John Quine, George Winskill, David Wilson Hamilton, William Henry Horley, John Cumberwortb, Charles F. Money, Thos. Partridge, George Clarke, J. Hamilton Ward, David Thomson, John Varger, John Caldwell, Samuel Johnston, Alfred C. Barker, C. Davis, James Banks, P. Pearee, John Leewood, T. Shailer, Mark Sprot, H. Crooks, E. C. J. Stevens, Chas. Alison, J. Elsbee, W. H. Lockwood, J. Reade, John Bealey, J.P. H. W. Read, Richard Westenra, M.P.C. Wm. Reeve, Chas. Lucas, George Fletcher, W. H. Philips, Joseph Hadley, Edmund Ford, George Warden, George Allen, Thomas Fowler, Henry Horsford Prins, H. Wade, John Foley, James H. Hawkes, Samuel Lock, Fred. Strout, William Hislop, D. Clarkson, Benj. Button, John Anderson. Thomas Mollett, Alex. Wilson, John Hughes, Thomas Langstaftj R. H. G. Restieaux, John Johnston, Samuel Bugg, Alexander Farney, George Wilmer, James Bowman, Henry Paddy, Charles Wagstaff, Charles Mazey, James Bruce,

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OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.

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Hugh Millighau, James Furmock, John R. Powsey, Robert Smeaton, John Brown Binley, James S. Barker, John James King, Thos. Anderson, James Daymond, Christopher Clarke, Charles Fraser, Daniel Slater, David Scott, Thomas Tombs, R. McGregor, John Kelly, Wm. Cuddon, Alexander Clephaue, Samuel Henry Pring. John Vincent, John Cuff, Thos. J. Easton, John S. Winney, P. B. Ridings, George Page, Edward Rees, George Bogers, Burrell Parkerson, H. Lowther, James Parkerson, F. Brown, James Willis, J. Wheeler, Charles Turner, Robert Hair, J. Edwin March, Fred. G. Hawley, R. J. S. Harman, Wm. Allen Pearce, William Iuwood, Wm. Harrington, sen. John Hill, J. Suell, J. Papprill, George Woolhouse, Jas. Brown Joyce, William Allison, Joseph Baldwin, Joseph H. Bailey, Charles Clark, Richard F. Waterlow, Isaac Luck, Richard Sutcliffe, William Simpson Baker, John Parker, John William Webb, Fred. Rossiter, Joseph Ward, Scott Donald, J. James Wood, Daniel Inwood, Richard Cousins, J. J. McCardell, H. F. Le Cren, J. E. Brooke, J. Martin Heywood, H. H. De Bourbel. George Strainer, Thos. H. Green, Grosvenor Miles, J. W. Fuller Dann and Bishop, W. Harris, H. E. Allport, William Ness, William Parkerson, D. C. Anderson, J. Younghusband, Thos B. Thompkius, Thomas Wilson, Noah Edgar, Alex. Wilson, Henry Jones, Walter A. Sheppard, W. G. Dorsett, George Piercey, W. Fanssell, G. H. Banks, Charles McNicol, Henry Young, O. W. Oakes, Strickland S. Field, W. Adams, James Field, Richard Rees, John Charles Atkinson, Henry F. Beecher. Thomas Hall, James Smith, Charles F. Worth, Thos. Smith, Jesse Howroyd, Wm. Ogier, Thomas Smith, J. H. Moore, G. Cliff, Elias Willis, jun. Thos. Cooper, Elias Willis, ser. J. Marshall, H. Wynn Williams, Soli.. Wm. Horner, B. B. Leathwicke, Thomas Caulfleld, H. Wagstaff, A. Holland, Alexander Hamilton, C. W. Smith, John Rutland, Thos. De La Mare, Edward Green, J. S. Buxton, Thomas George Gun- Hilliard, C. P. Soulsby, Thos. Wadsworth, John Williams, James Mummery, J. G. Rodgers, James Martyn De Haminctt, W. Gosling, J. Goss, E. M. Templar, G. Ramscur, W. T. L. Traverg, H. Waites, In nil 372.

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