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EXTENDING TIME OF NORTH TAUPO COMMISSION.

Jellicoe, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to Horatio John Hooper Blow, Esq., 1.5.0.; Frederick William Furkert, Esq., A.M.1.C.E., A.M.1.M.E., Engineer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary, Public Works Department; Herbert Buxton, Esq., Chief Traffic Manager, New Zealand Railways; and Gordon Hurrell Morland McClure, Esq., Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for the Wellington Land District; all of Wellington : Greeting. Whereas by a Warrant dated the eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and issued under my hand and the public seal of the Dominion, you were appointed a Commission to inquire into and report whether the tramway and timber rights of the Taupo Totara Timber Company (Limited) should be acquired by the Crown, or what action (if any) should be taken with respect thereto, and you were directed and required to report to me not later than the thirtieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty : And whereas it is expedient that the said period should be extended as hereinafter provided : 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 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 declare and appoint that the time at or before which you shall present to me your report aforesaid is hereby extended to the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty. 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 herein varied. 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 29th day of November, 1920. D. H. Guthrie, Minister of Lands. Approved in Council. F. 1). Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council. Gun save the King !