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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 and virtue 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 Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two. Geo. W. Forbes, Prime Minister. Approved in Council. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.

National Expenditure Commission: Extending Period within which Commissioners shall Report.

Bledisloe, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to George Shirtoliffe, Esquire, 0.8. E., of Wellington; James Begg, Esquire, of Dunedin; Colonel James Jacob Esson, C.M.G., of Wellington ; John Leslie Griffin, Esquire, of Wellington ; Alexander Macintosh, Esquire, of Wellington: Greeting. Whereas by Warrant dated the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, George Shirtcliffe, James Begg, James Jacob Esson, John Leslie Griffin, and Alexander Macintosh were appointed to be a Commission under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, for the purposes set out in the said Warrant: And whereas by the said Warrant you were required to submit an interim report to me under your hands and seals of your opinion as to the aforesaid matters not later than the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two : And whereas it is expedient that the said period should be extended as hereinafter provided : Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Act and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby extend the period within which you shall submit an interim report to me as by the said Commission provided to the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two : And in further pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Act, and with the like advice and consent, I do hereby confirm the said Commission except as altered by these presents. 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-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two. Geo. W. Forbes, Prime Minister. Approved in Council. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.

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