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1930. NEW ZEALAND.

WAITEMATA HARBOUR TRANSIT FACILITIES (REPORT OF ROYAL COMMISSION APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

COMMISSION. Appointing a Commission to inquire into and report on the Waitemata Harbour Transit Facilities. FEBGUSSON, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to Frederick William Furkert, Esquire, of Wellington, the Engineer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department ; James Marchbanks, Esquire, of Wellington. Engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board ; and Coll McDonald, Esquire, of Dunedin, Master Mariner, a member of the Otago Harbour Board : Greeting. Whereas it is expedient that inquiry should be made into the Waitemata Harbour transit facilities, and into such questions arising thereout as are hereinafter more particularly set forth : Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Govern or-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me 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 constitute and appoint you, the said Frederick William Furkert, James Marchbanks, and Coll McDonald, to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the following matters : — 1. The present Waitemata Harbour transit facilities. 2. The present and future harbour transit requirements. 3. The means by which such requirements may best be provided, and in particular the following matters : — (1) The necessity or otherwise for the building of a bridge across the Waitemata Harbour. In considering this question the Commission shall take into consideration the adequacy, efficiency, and suitability of the existing harbour transit facilities, in view of the population, capital value of the North Shore boroughs and adjacent

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