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And you are hereby authorized and required to conduct any inquiry under these presents at such times and places 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 such persons as you think capable of affording you information on any of the matters aforesaid, and to call for and examine all such documents as you deem necessary to afford you the fullest information on any such matters : And using all diligence you are required to report to me under your hand and seal not later than the 31st day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty - eight, your opinion on the aforesaid matters : And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or disclose, save to me in pursuance of these presents, or by my directions, 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 although your inquiry is not regularly continued from time to time or from place to place by adjournment: And lastly it is hereby declared that these presents are issued under Letters Patent dated the 11th day of May, 1917, and under the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908. In witness whereof we have caused this Commission to be issued and the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed, at Wellington, in the said Dominion, this 22nd day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, and in the second year of our Reign. Witness Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Com[l.s.] panion of the Distinguished Service Order, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies. GALWAY, Governor-General. By His Excellency's Command : M. J. SAVAGE, Native Minister. Approved in Council: C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Royal Commission on Orakei Lands: Extending Period within which, Commission shall Report. George the Sixth, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India; To our Trusty and Loving Subject the Honourable Robert Kennedy, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand : Greeting. Whereas by Warrant dated the twenty-second day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, issued under Letters Patent dated the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and under the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, you the said Robert Kennedy were appointed to be a Commission to inquire into and report as to the matters therein set forth with regard to certain lands at Orakei, in the City of Auckland :

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