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(7.) The prayer of the petition of Hone Peti and others to the House of Representatives with respect to the land known as Puketotara or Te Mataa No. 3169. (Petition No. 139/1918.) (8.) The prayer of the petition of Mohi te Atahikoia and forty-seven others to the House of Representatives claiming a portion of the sea called Te Whanganui-o-Rotu and the land known as the Puketitiri Reserve. (Petition No. 365/1919.) (9.) The prayer of the petition of Tieme Hipi and 916 others to the House of Representatives with respect to the purchase of the Ngaitahu Block by Mr. Kemp on behalf of the Crown in the year 1848. (Petition No. 454/1909.) c (10.) The prayer of the petition of Wi Taka and other Natives of the Koheriki Tribe to the Native Minister, dated the 24th July, 1919, that the Waikarakia Block be granted to the tribe in accordance with a promise alleged to have been made by Mr. George Wilkinson on behalf of the Crown. (11.) Claim by Mimiha Ponui and others (as successors to Eruiti Ponui) and Wiremu Tauroa and others (as successors to Hori Tauroa) to the ownership of Lots 323 to 331 (both inclusive), Parish of Waipipi. And, with the like advice and consent, I do further appoint you, the said Robert Noble Jones, to be the Chairman of the said Commission. And you are hereby authorized to conduct any inquiry under these presents at such times and places 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 such persons as you think capable of affording you information as to the matters aforesaid, and to call for and examine all such documents as you deem likely to afford you the fullest information on any such matters. And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to me, under your hands and seals, not later than the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, your opinion on 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. 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 do 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, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, GovernorGeneral 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 eighth day of June, in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty. W. H. Berries, Native Minister. Approved in Council. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.