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1915. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION DISTRICTS COMMISSION (REPORT OF), TOGETHER WITH MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AND EVIDENCE.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO AND KEPOET ON MATTEES RELATING TO THE DETEEMINING OF THE NUMBEE OF EDUCATION DISTRICTS AND THE DELIMITING OF THEIE BOUNDAEIES.

LIVERPOOL, Governor. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to Andrew Duncan Thomson, Esquire, Assistant Public Service Commissioner ; George Malcolm Thomson, Esquire, P.L.S. ; George Hogben, Esquire, C.M.G., M.A. ; Donald Petrie, Esquire, M.A., F.L.S. ; and John Strauchon, Esquire, 1.5.0. : Greeting. Whereas it is provided by the Education Act, 1914, that there shall be not less than seven nor more than nine education districts, and that such districts shall be determined on the report of a Commission set up on that behalf, shall state the name and chief town of each education district and the counties and other areas included therein : 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 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 constitute and appoint you, the said Andrew Duncan Thomson, George Malcolm Thomson, George|Hogben, Donald" Petrie, and John Strauchon, to be a Commission for the purposes aforesaid, and generally to make such inquiry in the premises as you shall deem expedient. And with the like advice and consent I do further appoint you, the said Andrew Duncan Thomson, to be the Chairman of the said Commission. And for the 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

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