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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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4. Whether adequate precautions were taken by the medical practitioners and nurses in charge of such cases at the Kelvin Maternity Hospital, and by officers of the Department of Health, to prevent infection in each of such cases and to limit its spread to other cases.

5. Whether any further precautionary measures, whether usual or not, were desirable in such, or will be desirable in similar cases in future.

6. Generally, to investigate and report upon all matters concerning these cases with a view to the future safeguarding of the public health, particularly in the treatment of maternity cases; and to make such recommendations as to additions or amendments to the existing legislation, statutory regulations, or departmental instructions affecting licensed maternity hospitals, and generally the prevention of puerperal septicæmia or like diseases, as may seem desirable to the Commission as a result of this investigation.

And, with the like advice and consent, I do further appoint you, the said FREDERICK EARL, to be Chairman of the said Commission:

And, for the better enabling you, the said Commission, to carry these presents into effect, you are hereby authorized and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents at such times and places in the said Dominion 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 to examine on oath, or otherwise as may be allowed by law, such person or persons as you think capable of affording you information on the subjects of this Commission, and you are also hereby empowered to call for and examine all such books, papers, plans, documents, or records as you deem likely to afford you any information on the subject-matter of the inquiry hereby directed to be made, and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all lawful means whatsoever:

And, using all diligence, you are required to report to me the result of your inquiry, with any recommendations you think fit to make in respect of the matters and things inquired into by you, under and by virtue of these presents, under your hands and seals, not later than the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, your opinion as to the aforesaid matters:

And, it is hereby declared that these presents shall continue in full force and virtue although the inquiry is not regularly continued from time to time or from place to place by adjournment:

And, lastly, it is hereby declared that these presents are issued under and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and the Health Act, 1920.

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 12th day of February, 1924.

M. POMARE,
Minister of Health.

Approved in Council.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Change of Name of “Tamaki West Road District” to “Tamaki Road District.”

[L.S.]
JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Board of the Tamaki West Road District, in the County of Eden, has, by resolution adopted at an ordinary meeting thereof, requested that the name of that road district be altered from “Tamaki West” to “Tamaki”:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Designation of Districts Act, 1908, and the Designation of Districts Amendment Act, 1909, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the name of the road district now known as “Tamaki West” in the County of Eden, shall be and the same is hereby altered to “Tamaki” and do assign the last-mentioned name to such road district accordingly; and also do hereby proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, not being earlier than six months after the first publication thereof in the Gazette.

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 13th day of February, 1924.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land held under Pastoral License proclaimed as ceasing to be set apart as National-endowment Land.

[L.S.]
JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1921–22, it is enacted that where any national-endowment land is held under a pasturage lease or license for a term of not less than fourteen years, of which not less than seven years have expired, and the Board is of opinion that the land comprised in the lease or license is not more than sufficient for the maintenance of the lessee and his family, the Governor-General may, by Proclamation approved in Executive Council, declare that the said land shall cease to be national-endowment land:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto, which is held under pastoral license as aforesaid, should cease to be national-endowment land:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities so conferred upon me by the aforesaid section eleven, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, 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 proclaim and declare that from and after the date of the gazetting hereof the land described in the Schedule hereto, which was set apart as national-endowment land under the provisions of section two hundred and fifty-eight of the Land Act, 1908, shall cease to be national-endowment land.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—EAST TAUPŌ COUNTY.

PASTORAL RUN 65: Area, 1,580 acres 3 roods 9 perches.

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 12th day of February, 1924.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Land set apart as Provisional State Forest declared to be subject to the Land Act, 1908.

[L.S.]
JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty of the Forests Act, 1921–22, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting on the recommendation of the Minister of Lands, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto, being portion of a provisional State forest set apart by Proclamation dated the sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and gazetted on the twenty-fifth day of that month, is required for settlement purposes; and, in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, such land shall, from and after the day of the gazetting hereof, cease to be a provisional State forest, and shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situate in Blocks III, VII, and VIII, Tairua Survey District, being portion of provisional State forest reserve set apart by Proclamation dated the 16th day of March, 1920, and published in the