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Otago District. Shag Point. Freeman's, Abbotsford. Allandale. Kaitangata, including Castle Hill. Southland District. Nightcaps. (6.) And, lastly, you are hereby enjoined to make such suggestions and recommendations as you may consider desirable or necessary to provide for the future more efficient working, control, management, and inspection of the coal-mines of the colony, or any of them. And with the like advice and consent I do further appoint you, the said William Reeve Haselden, to be Chairman of the said Commission. And for the better enabling you to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorised and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents at such place or places in the said colony as you deem expedient, and to call before you and examine on oath or otherwise as may be allowed bylaw such person or persons as you think capable of affording you information in the premises ; and you are also hereby empowered to call for and examine all such books, documents, papers, maps, plans, or records as you deem likely to afford you the fullest information on the subject of this Commission, and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all other lawful ways and means whatsoever. And it is hereby declared that this Commission is issued under and subject to the provisions of " The Commissioners' Powers Act, 1867," and its amendments. And, lastly, that, using all diligence, you do report to me under your hands and seals your opinion resulting from the said inquiries in respect to the several matters and things inquired into by you under or by virtue of these presents not later than the thirty-first day of March next.* And it is hereby declared that this Commission shall continue in full force and virtue although the inquiry thereunder be not regularly continued from time to time by adjournment, and that you and any two of you shall and may from time to time proceed with the execution thereof, and of every matter, power, or thing herein contained. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused these presents to be issued (ti.S.) under the seal of the said colony, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred. RANFURLY, Governor. Issued in Executive Council. A. W. Willis, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending Commission to inquire into and report on the Inspection and Management of Coalmines. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to William Reeve Haselden, Esq., Stipendiary Magistrate, of Wellington ; Joseph Proud, Esq., a certificated mine-manager, of Wanganui; and John Lomas, Esq., of Christchurch, an Inspector under "The Factories Act, 1894 : " Greeting : Wheeeas by a Commission bearing date the twenty-second day of November last, you, the said William Reeve Haselden, Joseph Peoud,and John Lomas were appointed to be a Commission for the purposes and with the powers in the said Commission more particularly mentioned : And whereas by an extension of the said Commission you were directed and required to report to me on or before the first day of May* then next ensuing your proceedings and your opinion touching the matters mentioned therein : And whereas it is expedient that the said Commission should be extended as hereinafter provided : Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of every power and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby extend the said Commission to include the following coal-mines in the Malvern District, Canterbury :— Springfield. Sheffield. Homebush. St. Helens. Hartley. Mount Somers. Rutherford's. And with the like advice and consent, and in further pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, I do hereby confirm the said Commission, except as altered by these presents. In witness whereof, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said (1.5.) colony, have hereunto set my hand, and have caused these presents to be issued under the seal of the said colony, at Wellington, in the said colony, this third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one. Issued in Executive Council. J. F. Andrews, Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

* Subsequently extended to 31st May, 1901.