H,— 2B

And using all due diligence, you are required to report to me, under your hands and seals, not later than the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, your opinion on the aforesaid matter : 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 these presents shall continue in force although the inquiry is not regularly continued from time to time or from place to place : 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 Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 9th day of May, 1933. J. G. Coates, Minister of Customs. Approved in Council. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.

EXTENDING THE PERIOD WITHIN WHICH THE CUSTOMS TARIFF COMMISSION SHALL REPORT.

Bledisloe, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to George Craig, Esquire, C.M.G., LL.D., Comptroller of Customs ; James Burman Gow, Esquire, of Whakatane, Settler ; Bernard Edward Murphy, Esquire, M.A., LL.B., 8.C0m., Professor of Economics, Victoria University College, Wellington; and George Augustus Pascoe, Esquire, of Christchurch, Company Director : Greeting ! Whereas by a Warrant dated the ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, and issued under my hand and the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand, you, the said George Craig, James Burman Gow, Bernard Edward Murphy, and George Augustus Pascoe, were appointed to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the revision of the Customs Tariff of New Zealand : And whereas by the said Warrant you were required to report to me under your hands and seals not later than the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, your opinion on the aforesaid matters : And whereas it is expedient that the period within which you are required to report to me should be extended : Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and of - all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby extend the period within which you are required to report to me, as by the said Commission provided, to the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four : And in further pursuance of the said powers and authorities 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, this Bth day of September, 1933. J. G. Coates, Minister of Customs. Approved in Council. F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council.

2