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EXTENSION OF TIME OF COMMISSION.

Liverpool, Governor. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to John Strauchon, Esq., 1.5.0.* of Wellington, Surveyor; Major Daniel Henderson Lusk, of Auckland, Farmer ; and John Allman Mai chant, Esq., of Ruatapu, Sawmill Manager: Greeting. Whereas by a Warrant dated the twenty-second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and issued under my hand and the Public Seal of the Dominion, you were appointed a Commission to inspect and report upon the land and forests belonging to the Crown situated within mining districts in the Nelson and Westland Land Districts, and to make recommendations respecting the tenures and method of administration under which the timber should be sold and the land settled, and whether such administration and tenures should be amended, and, if so, to what extent: And whereas by a Warrant dated the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, the scope of your Commission was extended to include the power to inspect and report in a similar manner on the land and forests belonging to the Crown situated within mining districts in the Marlborough Land District: And whereas by the said Warrant you were required to report the result of your inquiry on or before the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen : And whereas by a Warrant dated the first day of July, the time within which you were required to report, was extended to the eleventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen : And whereas it is expedient to further extend the period within which you are required to report: Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby revive the said Commission and extend the period within which you are required to report until the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. And with the like advice and consent, and in further pursuance of the said power and authority, I do hereby confirm the said Commission, except as altered by these presents. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in [l.s.] and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies ;; and issued under the seal of the said Dominion, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. W. F. Massey, Issued in Executive Council. Minister of Lands. J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council.