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And. for the purpose of better enabling you, the said Commission, to carry these presents into effect, you are hereby authorized and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents, at such times and places in the said Dominion as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and place to place as you think fit, and to call before you and examine, on oath, or otherwise as may be allowed by law, 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 such books, papers, plans, writings, documents, or records as you deem likely to afford you the fullest information on the subject-matter of the inquiry hereby directed to be made, and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all lawful means whatsoever. And, using all diligence, you are required to report to me under your hands and seals not later than the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, your opinion as to 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 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, at the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. D. I-I'. Guthrie, Approved in Council. Acting Minister of Railways. F. D. Thomson, Cleric of the Executive Council. EXTENSION OF COMMISSION REGARDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY BETWEEN ROTORUA AND TAUPO. Jellicoe, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to Herbert Buxton, Esquire, of Wellington ; George Thomas Murray, Esquire, of Wellington ; Leon Macintosh Ellis, Esquire, of Wellington ; John Douglas Ritchie, Esquire, of Wellington ; and to Hugh Munro, Esquire, of Auckland : Greeting. Whereas by a Warrant dated the sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and issued under my hand and the Public Seal of the Dominion, you were appointed a Commission to inquire into and report regarding the desirability of constructing a Government railway between Rotorua and Taupo ; and, using all diligence, you were required to report to me, under your' hands and seals, not later than the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, your opinion as to the aforesaid matter : And whereas it is expedient to extend the time within which you were required to report as aforesaid in manner hereinafter appearing : Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred 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 extend the time within which you are required to report to me under your hands and seals your opinion on the matter specified in the said Warrant dated the sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, to the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.