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to 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 first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, 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 this Commission shall continue in full force and virtue although the inquiry be not regularly continued from- time to time or from place to place by adjournment, and that you or any three of you shall and may from time to time proceed in execution thereof and of every power, matter, and thing herein contained. 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 Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six. Wm. Downie Stewart, For Native Minister. Approved in Council. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.

KEPOE T. To His Excellency General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, — May it please Your Excellency,— We, the Commissioners appointed by Your Excellency on the 28th day of May, 1926, to hold an inquiry and make a report upon the necessity or advisability of establishing Model villages on the sites of the present villages of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa, have the honour to report as follows : — The Commission met at 2 p.m. on the 24th day of June, in the Native Land Court Buildings, Rotorua, and immediately repaired to Ohinemutu, where an inspection of the village was made. On Friday, 25th June, a thorough inspection of Whakarewarewa Village was carried out, and photographs taken of different types of buildings. On Saturday, 26th June, the Chairman and Mr. Mitchell interviewed members of the Chamber of Commerce, Borough Councillors, and the Government -Tourist Agent, with a view to their giving evidence before the Commission. The other members of the Commission made a further inspection of Ohinemutu Village and had photographs taken of various buildings. The Commission commenced taking evidence at the Native Land Court, Rotorua, on Monday, 28th June, at 10 a.m., when Mr. Hill, Government Tourist Agent, Rotorua, and Mr. Nesbit, president of the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce, gave evidence. The Commission then visited Ohinemutu and met the Maoris of that village in the meeting-house ; but, as many of them had not grasped the extent and purport of the order of reference, they pleaded for time to consider, and it was eventually agreed that a committee be formed to draw up a statement of what they considered should be done towards the improvement of the village. The taking of evidence at the Courthouse was again resumed at 2 p.m., when

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