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matter of the inspection and classification hereby directed to be made. And using all diligence you are required to report to me under your hand within forty days from the date of these presents the result of your inspection and classification, with any recommendations you think fit to make in the premises. 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 Commander-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 . id twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen; H. D. Bell, For Minister of Lands. Issued in Executive Council, J. F. Andrews, Clerk of.the Executive Council.

Extending Time of Kauri-gum Reserves Commission. Liverpool, Governor. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to Reginald Palmer Greville, Esq., F.R.G.S., of Hamilton, Inspector of Surveys; Samuel Stafford, Esq., of Waipu, gum-digger; William Stewart, Esq., of Kawakawa, Chairman of the Bay of Islands County Council; Robert Hebden, Esq., of W'aihopo, Secretary of the Gum-diggers' Union; John Matheson McKay, Esq., of Waipu, farmer : Greeting. Whereas by a Warrant dated the twentieth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and issued under my hand and the public seal of the Dominion, you were appointed a Commission to inspect and classify the kauri-gum reserves in the Land District of Auckland, and you were directed and required to report to me on or before the twenty-ninth day of April then next ensuing the result of your inspection and classification : And whereas you did not furnish a report within the time specified : And it is therefore expedient to extend the period within which you were required to report, and for that purpose to reappoint the Commission as hereinafter provided : Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, 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 were required to report until the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and for that purpose do hereby appoint you, the said Reginald Palmer Greville, Samuel Stafford, William Stewart, Robert Hebden, and John Matheson McKay to be a Commission for the purposes set forth in the Warrant of the twentieth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, which Warrant, except as altered by these presents, shall be deemed to be incorporated herein. And with the like advice and consent, I do further appoint you, Reginald Palmer Greville, to be Chairman of the Commission.