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and economic aspects of the question, and to examine and report upon proposals that may be made for amending the law in New Zealand in the public interest: Now know ye that We, reposing trust and confidence in your knowledge and ability, do hereby nominate' constitute, and appoint you, the said •David* Stanley Smith, Percy Taylor Coyle, George William Hutchison, Thomas Jordan, Edmund Colin Nigel Robinson, James Patrick Ruth, John Thomson Macky, Percy Malthus, and Frederick George Young to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the working of the laws relating to the manufacture and importation, sale and supply, whether by wholesale or retail, of intoxicating liquors, and the social and economic aspects of the question and proposals that may be made for amending the law in the public interest, and to make such proposals as you may yourselves think fit for amendment of the law : And generally to inquire into and report upon such other matters arising out of the premises as may come to your notice in the course of your inquiries and which you consider should be investigated in connection therewith, and upon any matters affecting the premises which you consider should be brought to the attention of the Government: And We do hereby appoint you, the said David Stanley Smith, to be Chairman of the said Commission : And for the better enabling you to carry these Presents into effect you are hereby authorized and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these Presents at such time and place as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and place to place as you think fit, and so that these Presents shall continue in force, and the inquiry may at any time and place be resumed although not regularly adjourned from time to time or from place to place : And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose save to His Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance of these Presents or by His Excellency's direction, the contents of any report so made or to be made by you or any evidence or information obtained by you in the exercise of the powers hereby conferred upon you except such evidence or information as is received in the course of a sitting open to the public :

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