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every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, do hereby appoint you, the said Robert Smelt Bush and Herbert Samuel Wardell, to be Commissioners for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting on the management of said school, and the treatment of the inmates thereof, within the last two years ; for which purpose you are hereby empowered and directed by all lawful ways and means to examine and inquire into every matter and thing touching and concerning the premisses, in such manner and at such times as you may deem expedient, and in the course of the said inquiry to examine rfnto any other matter or thing that may be preferred, in writing or otherwise, before you in any way relating to or arising out of the premises. And you are hereby authorised and empowered to have before you, and examine on oath or otherwise, as may be allowed by law, all witnesses and other persons whom you shall judge capable of affording you any information touching or concerning the premises. And I do further require you, within thirty days from the date of these presents, or as much sooner as the same can conveniently be done (using all diligence), to certify to me under your hands and seals your several proceedings and your opinion touching the premises, together with such recommendations and suggestions therein as to you may seem necessary or fit. And I do hereby declare that this Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that subject to these presents you, the said Commissioners, shall and may from time to time proceed in the subject-matters hereof at such time and times within the prescribed limits as you shall judge convenient. And I do hereby further declare that this Commission is issued subject to the provisions of " The Commissioners' Powers Act, 1867," and " The Commissioners' Powers Act, 1867 Amendment Act, 1872." Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly ; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Sainf Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and ' issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred. W. C. Walker. In Executive Couucil — J. F. Andrews, Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Ranfurly, Governor. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to Robert Smelt Bush, Esq., Stipendiary Magistrate, and to Herbert Samuel Wardell, Esq., Justice of the Peace, Greeting : Whereas by Commission dated the twentieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred, you, the said Robert Smelt Bush and Herbert Samuel Wardell, were appointed Commissioners for the purpose of making an inquiry into the management of the St. Mary's Industrial School for boys, at Stoke, Nelson, and were directed to report on the management of the said school and the treatment of the inmates thereof during the period of two years next preceding the date oi: the said Commission : And whereas it is expedient that the aforesaid period of two years should be extended. Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and excercise of every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, dp hereby direct and empower you, the said Commissioners, to inquire and report on the management of the said school and the treatment of the inmates thereof during the period of five years next preceding the date of the said Commission, in lieu of two years as specified therein: And I hereby declare that these presents shall be deemed to be incorporated with the said Commission as part thereof. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly ; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George ; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and (1.5.) over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred. W. C. Walker. Approved in Council.—F. J. Andrews, Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.