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you and examine on oath or otherwise, as may be allowed by law, such persons as you think capable of affording you information as to the matters aforesaid ; and you are also hereby empowered to call for and examine all such documents as you deem likely to afford you information on any such matters. And, using all diligence, you are required to report to me under your hands and seals, not later than the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, your opinion as to the aforesaid matters. And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose, save to me in pursuance of these presents or by my direction, the contents or purport of any report so made or to be made by you. And it is hereby declared that these presents shall continue in full force 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, Member of Ffis Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, 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 twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. G. W. Russell, Minister of Public Health. Approved in Council. J. E. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council. God save the King !

EXTENDING TIME FOB REPORT OF COMMISSION. Liverpool, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to the Hon. Sir John Edward Denniston, Knight, of Christchurch ; the Hon. Edward Mitchelson, of Auckland ; and David McLaren, Esquire, of Wellington : Greeting. Whereas by a Warrant dated the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and issued under my hand and the Public Seal of the Dominion, you were appointed a Commission to inquire into and report upon the recent epidemic of influenza in New Zealand : And whereas you were required to report to me not later than the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, your opinion touching the matters mentioned in the said Warrant: 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-General 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 declare and appoint that the time at or before which you shall present to me your report aforesaid is hereby extended to the thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. And I do hereby further declare that the powers conferred upon you by the said Warrant may be exercised either by all of you or by any two of you jointly.