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And with the like advice and consent I do further appoint you, Vernon Herbert Reed, to be Chairman of the said Commission. 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 fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one. C. J. Parr, Minister of Health. Approved in Council. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.

EXTENDING PERIOD WITHIN WHICH THE COMMISSION CONSTITUTED TO INQUIRE INTO AND REPORT UPON PROPOSALS TO AMEND THE HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS ACT, 1909, SHALL REPORT.

Jellicoe, Governor-General. To ail whom these presents shall come, and to Vernon Herbert Reed, Esquire, M.P., of Kawakawa ; Hugh T. D. Acland, Esquire, C.M.G., F.R.C.S., of 381 Montreal Street. Christchurch, Medical Practitioner ; the Honourable Archibald F. Hawke, M.L.C., of Invercargill; George Shirtcliffe, Esquire, of 40 Tinakori Road, Wellington, Merchant ; and the' Honourable William Henry Triggs, M.L.C., of Christchurch, Journalist. Whereas by Warrants dated the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, you, the said Vernon Herbert Reed, Hugh T. D. Acland, Archibald F. Hawke, George Shirtcliffe, and William Henry Triggs were appointed to be a Commission under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, for the purposes set out in the said Warrants : ' And whereas by the said Warrants you were required to report to me under your hands and seals your opinions as to the aforesaid matters not later than the thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twentyone : 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 said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby extend the period within which you shall report to me as by the said Commission provided to the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one. And, in further pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said. Act, and with the like advice and consent, I do hereby confirm the said Commission, except as altered by these presents. 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 third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one. F. H. D. For Minister of Health. Approved in Council. C. A. Jeffery, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.