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4. The past management of the said blocks, and the receipts and expenditure in connection therewith, and the annual cost of management. 5. 'Idle method and audit of accounts thereof. 6. The receipts and expenditure, in connection with the Waitangirua Station. 7. The amounts paid to beneficiaries in each year. 8. The number of beneficiaries entitled to an interest in each of the said blocks. 9. Whether any moneys have been paid to persons other than beneficiaries (excluding moneys expended in the ordinary course of management), and the circumstances under and in respect of which such moneys (if any) were so paid. 10. And generally to inquire into and report upon all matters relating to the said blocks, and to recommend what provision should be made for the future management, control, and disposition thereof. And with the like advice and consent I do further appoint you, Walter Edward Rawson, to be Chairman of the said Commission. And for the better enabling you, the said Commission, to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorized and empowered to make and conductany inquiry into these presents at such times and places in the said Dominion as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and place to place as you think fit, and to call before you and examine on oath or otherwise, as may be allowed by law, such person or persons as you think capable of affording you information in the premises; and you are also hereby empowered to call for and examine all such books, papers, plans, writings, documents, or reports as you deem likely to afford you the fullest information on the subjectmatter of the inquiry hereby directed to be made, and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all lawful means whatsoever. And, using all diligence, you are required to report to me, under your hands and seals, not later than the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, 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, and also under and in pursuance of the said section. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor-General 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 fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. W. H. Herries, Minister of Native Affairs. Approved in Council. J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council.

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