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And whereas by the said Warrant you were required to report to us, under your hand and seal, not later than the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, your opinion on the aforesaid matters : And whereas it is expedient that the period in which you are required to report to us should be extended as hereinafter provided : Now, therefore, we do hereby extend the period within which you are required to report to us, as by the said Warrant provided, to the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight: And we do hereby confirm the said Commission except as altered by these presents : In witness whereof we have caused this Warrant to be issued and the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed, at Wellington, in the said Dominion, this seventeenth day of August, in the Year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, and in the second year of our Reign. Witness Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion [l.s.] of the Distinguished Service Order, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies. GALWAY, Governor-General. By His Excellency's Command : M. J. SAVAGE, Native Minister. Approved in Council: C. A. JEPPERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Royal Commission on Orakei Lands : Further extending Period within which Commission shall Report.

George the Sixth, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India : To our Trusty and Loving Subject the Honourable Robert Kennedy, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand : Greeting. Whereas by Warrant dated the twenty-second day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, issued under Letters Patent dated the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and under the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, you the said Robert Kennedy were appointed to be a Commission to inquire into and report as to the matters therein set forth with regard to certain lands at Orakei, in the City of Auckland : And whereas by the said Warrant you were required to report to us, under your hand and seal, not later than the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, your opinion on the aforesaid matters : And whereas by Warrant dated the seventeenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, the period within which you were required to report to us as by the said Commission provided was extended to the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight: And whereas it is expedient that the period in which you are required to report to us should be further extended as hereinafter provided :

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