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1934. NEW ZEALAND.

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO COMPANY PROMOTION METHODS, ETC. (FINAL REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS).

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

COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO AND REPORT UPON TENDENCIES AND DEVELOPMENTS APPARENT IN THE DOMINION IN RELATION TO THE PROMOTION, FINANCIAL METHODS, CONTROL, AND OPERATIONS OF CERTAIN COMPANIES AND OTHER CORPORATIONS WHICH SEEK TO RAISE CAPITAL AND LOAN FUNDS IN THE DOMINION.

Bledisloe, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to John Saxon Barton, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate, of Wellington ; Horace Belshaw, Esquire, of Auckland ; and Frank Edward Graham, Esquire, of Christchureh: Greeting ! Whereas it is desirable in the public interest that an investigation shall be conducted into the promotion, financial methods, control, and operation of companies with a view to instituting any necessary modifications in the law relating thereto : Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, the Governor-General 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 that behalf, and acting by and with the consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby constitute and appoint you, the said John Saxon Barton, Horace Belshaw, and Frank Edward Graham, to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon tendencies and developments apparent in the Dominion in relation to the promotion, financial methods, control,

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