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And, using all diligence, you are required to report to me, under your hand and seal, not later than the fifteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, your opinion as to the aforesaid matters. And it is hereby declared that these presents shall continue in full force and virtue although the inquiry is not regularly continued from time to time or from place to place by adjournment. And, lastly, it is hereby further declared that these presents are issued under and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, .1908. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Comm-ander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. R. Heaton Rhodes, Minister in Charge of Mental Hospitals. Approved in Council. J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Commission to inquire into and report upon the Treatment of certain Patients in the Sunny side Mental Hospital: Extending Period within which Commissioner shall report. Liverpool, Governor. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to Victor Grace Day, Esquire, of Timaru, Stipendiary Magistrate. Whereas by Warrant dated the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, you, the said Victor Grace Day, were appointed to be a Commission under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, to inquire into and report upon the treatment in Sunnyside Mental Hospital of — (1.) The late William Alexander Tribe; (2.) The late James Howie; (3.) The late Sidney Lionel Barrett; (4.) Lewis Allan Gourlay; and (5.) Daniel Herlihy : And whereas by the said Warrant you were required to report to me under your hand and seal your opinion as to the aforesaid matters not later than the fifteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen : And whereas it is expedient that the said period should be extended as hereinafter provided : Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby extend the period within which you shall report to me as by the said Commission provided to the twentyninth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.