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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 all to 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.G.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 twenty-one : And whereas by Warrant dated the third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, the time in which you were required to report to me was extended to the thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one : And whereas it is expedient that the said period should be further 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 thirtieth day of June, 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 seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one. F. H. D. Bell, Approved in Council. For Minister of Health. C. A. Jeffery, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Department of Health, Hospitals, and Charitable Aid, Dear Sir,— Wellington, 11th February, 1921. In exercise of the authority given me under paragraph 10 of the order of reference of your Commission, I hereby refer the following matters, in connection with hospitals, to the Commission for inquiry and report: — 1. (6.) Generally as to the best means of meeting the heavy cost of proposed capital works. 6. (b.) The establishment of paying or private wards in public hospitals. 10. To what extent economy might'be effected by the adoption of stricter business methods, more especially in the purchasing of medical or surgical supplies. Yours, &c„ C. J. Parr, "Minister of Health. The Chairman, Commission on Hospital Matters, Wellington.