✨ Royal Commission Appointment




  1. Whether any action of any member of the staff (including the Honorary Medical Staff) of the hospital or of any member of the Hospital Board has been or is detrimental to the discipline or effective co-operation of the nursing staff, and, generally, the organization, control, and supervision of the medical and nursing staff of the hospital and the carrying-out of their duties.

  2. The organization, control, and supervision of the training of nurses at the hospital.

  3. Generally any matters related to the management and administration of the said hospital arising out of any of the aforesaid particular matters; and we do further appoint you the said

Edward Darker Mosley

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 Dominion of New Zealand 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, as may be allowed by law, such person or persons as you think capable of affording you information on the subject of the inquiry hereby directed, 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 to do all things and exercise all powers that might be done or exercised under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908:

And, using all diligence, you are required to report to me under your hands and seals, not later than the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, your opinion as to the aforesaid matters, together 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:

And you and each of you are strictly charged and directed that you shall not publish or otherwise disclose, save to me in pursuance of these presents or by my direction, the contents or purport of any report or recommendation so 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:

And, lastly, it is hereby declared that these presents are issued under Letters Patent dated the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908:

In witness whereof we have caused this Commission to be issued and the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed, at Wellington, in the said Dominion, this twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, and in the first year of our Reign.

Witness Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Councillor, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion 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.

Approved in Council.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.



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πŸ₯ Royal Commission Appointment for Napier Hospital Inquiry (continued from previous page)

πŸ₯ Health & Social Welfare
28 May 1937
Royal Commission, Napier Hospital, Inquiry, Management, Administration, Nursing Staff, Medical Staff, Training, Discipline, Governance
  • Edward Darker Mosley, Appointed Chairman of the Commission

  • George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General
  • A. W. Mulligan, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council