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FURTHER EXTENSION OF TIME OF COMMISSION. Jellicoe, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to John Strauchon, Esquire, of Wellington : Greeting. WHEREAS by a Warrant, dated the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and issued under my hand and the Public Seal of the Dominion, you were appointed a Commission to inquire into and report upon the extent to which local authorities may have incurred or may incur loss of revenue from royalties consequent on the passing of the Forests Act, 1921-22, and upon the provision which should consequently be made from the revenues of the State Forest Service or otherwise, and generally to inquire into and report upon such other matters relating thereto as may come under your notice in the course of your inquiries and which you consider require to be investigated in connection therewith : And whereas you were required by the said Warrant to report under your hand and seal not later than the twenty-third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three : And whereas by a Warrant, dated the sixteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the time within, which you were required to report was extended, to the twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three : And whereas it is expedient that the said period should be further extended as hereinafter provided : Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Govern or-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 that 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 thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three. And with the like advice and consent, and in further pursuance of the said power and authority, I do hereby confirm the said Commission except as herein varied. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight Grand Cross 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, this twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three. R. Heaton Rhodes, Commissioner of State Forests. Approved in Council. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.