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1916. NEW ZE A L AND.

FOXTON WHARF AND MAIN TRUNK DEVIATION COMMISSION (REPORT OF THE) TOGETHER WITH MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AND EVIDENCE.

Presented to the /louse of Representatives by Command.

COMMISSION TO INQUIBE INTO AND REPOBT AS TO THE ADVISABILITY OF SUGGESTED PURCHASE OF FOXTON RAILWAY WHARF BY TJJE FOXTON HARBOUR BOARD, CONNECTION OF SANDON TRAMWAY WITH THE MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY LINE, AND FORMATION OF NEW RAILWAY-LINE CONNECTING FOXTON WITH THE EXISTING LINES AT LEVIN OR OTHER SUITABLE POINT.

Liverpool, Governor. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to the Honourable Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand; William Mowat Hannay, Esquire, of Wellington; and Cyrus Williams, Esquire, of Lyttelton: Greeting. Whereas it is desirable that inquiry should be made into the expediency of certain proposals, hereinafter set forth, relative to the working and extension of the railway system of New Zealand, and into the expediency of legislation for the piirpose of carrying these proposals into effect: 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 this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby constitute and appoint, you the said Robf;rt Stout, William Mowat Hannay, and Cyrus Williams to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the following matters : — I. Whether it is desirable in the public interest that the Foxton Harbour Board should be permitted to purchase from the Railway Department the Railway Wharf at Foxton, and, if so, on what basis the purchase-money should be ascertained, and what should be the terms and conditions of such purchase. 11. Whether it is desirable in the public interest that the Sandon Tramway should be purchased by the Government and be connected with the Main Trunk Railway at Marton or Greatford as part of the railway system of the Dominion.

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