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3. Generally the means by which the remaining capacity of such persons as aforesaid can best be utilized so as to enable them in whole or in part to maintain themselves and their dependants, and the advisability or otherwise of adopting any particular means which may be proposed to or by you for that purpose ; 4. In cases where no means are likely to enable such persons to be able by their own efforts either partially or wholly to maintain themselves and their dependants, the best means of affording assistance to them ; 5. The classes of persons who should come within the scope of any of your recommendations, and the principles governing such classifications ; and 6. The necessity for legislation to enable all or any recommendations that you may'make to be carried into effect. And with the like advice and consent I do hereby further appoint you, the said John Saxon Barton, to be the Chairman of the said Commission. And you are hereby authorized to conduct any inquiry under these presents at such times and places 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 such persons as you think capable of affording you information as to the matters aforesaid, and to call for and examine all such books, papers, writings, documents, and records as you deem likely to afford, you the fullest information on any such matters. And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to me, under your hands and seals, not later than the tenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, your opinion on the aforesaid matters. And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose, save to me in pursuance of these presents or by my direction, the contents or purport of any report so made or to be made by you. And it is hereby declared that this Commission shall continue in full force and virtue although the inquiry be not regularly continued from time to time or from place to place by adjournment. And, lastly, it is hereby further declared that these presents are issued under and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the [l.s.] Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 14th day of October, 1929. Thomas M. Wilfokd, Minister of Defence. Approved in Council. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.