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And you are hereby authorised and empowered to have before you and examine all books, papers, plans, and writings whatsoever as you deem necessary for your information on the subject-matter of this inquiry, and also to have before you and examine on oath or otherwise, as you may be allowed by law, all witnesses and other persons whom you judge capable of affording you any information touching or concerning the premises. And I do further require you, within thirty days from the date of these presents, or as much sooner as the same can conveniently be done (using all due diligence), to report to me under your hands and seals your several proceedings, and your opinion touching the premises. And I do further declare that these presents shall continue in full force and virtue, and that subject thereto you shall and may from time to time proceed in the subject-matter hereof at such times and within the prescribed limits as you judge convenient. And I do hereby further declare that the said Alexander McArthur shall be Chairman of the Commission, and that these presents are issued under and subject to the provisions of " The Commissioners Act, 1903," and " The Commissioners Act Amendment Act, 1905." Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and six. Wm. Hall-J ones. Approved in Executive Council. J. F. Andrews, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council. Plunket, Governor. In pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby empower Alexander McArthur, Harold Sewallis Blackburne, and Walter George Foster, the Commissioners named in the within-written Commission, to conduct and continue the inquiry provided for at Wellington, or at any other place in the said colony they may think necessary, and in all other respects do hereby revive and confirm the within-written Commission, and extend the time within which report may be made under the same as hereby revived and confirmed to the thirtieth day of September next. Approved in Council. Alex. Willis, Clerk of the Executive Council. 27th August, 1906.

Plunket, Governor. In pursuance and exercise of every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby empower Alexander McArthur, Harold Sewallis Blackburne, and Walter George Foster, the Commissioners named in the within-written Commission, to conduct and continue the inquiry therein provided for at Wellington, or at any other place in the said colony they may think necessary, and in all other respects do h'ereby revive and confirm the within-written Commission, and extend the time within which report may be made under the same as hereby revived and confirmed to the twenty-first day of October next. Approved in Council. • Alex. Willis, Clerk of the Executive Council. 2nd October, 1906.

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