17 MARCH
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
399

Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 8th day of March 1955

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to the Local Government Loans Board Act 1926, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby consents to the borrowing by the local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto by way of loan of the whole or any part of the respective amounts specified in that Schedule.

SCHEDULE

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Royal Commission to Inquire Into and Report Upon Matters Concerning the Monetary, Banking, and Credit System of New Zealand

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith:

To Our Trusty and Well-beloved the Honourable Mr Justice ARTHUR TYNDALL, C.M.G., of Wellington, Judge of the Court of Arbitration; WILLIAM GORDON VICTOR FERNIE of Christchurch, Company Manager; RONALD MACGREGOR HUTTON-POTTS of Invercargill, Managing Editor; CLEMENT GEORGE TROTTER of Hawera, Managing Director; GORDON GRAHAM GIBBS WATSON of Wellington, Barrister; and ERNEST DAWSON WILKINSON of Auckland, Public Accountant:

GREETING:

KNOW ye that We, reposing trust and confidence in your integrity, knowledge and ability, do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint you, the said

ARTHUR TYNDALL,
WILLIAM GORDON VICTOR FERNIE,
RONALD MACGREGOR HUTTON-POTTS,
CLEMENT GEORGE TROTTER,
GORDON GRAHAM GIBBS WATSON, and
ERNEST DAWSON WILKINSON

to be a Commission to receive, inquire into, and report upon the matters hereinafter set forth with a view to fostering a greater degree of stability in prices, maintaining full employment of labour, ensuring the healthy development of natural resources, and promoting generally the economic, financial, and social welfare of the people of New Zealand, that is to say, to receive, inquire into, and report upon representations regarding

(a) Any monetary, banking, and credit proposals that may be suggested as suitable for application in New Zealand;

(b) The present monetary, banking, and credit system in New Zealand and the advisability or otherwise of any changes in that system; and

(c) Any associated matters which should be deemed by you to be relevant to the general objects of the inquiry:

And We do hereby appoint you, the said

ARTHUR TYNDALL,

to be Chairman of the said Commission:

And for the better enabling you to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorized and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents at such time and place as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and place to place as you think fit, and so that these presents shall continue in force, and the inquiry may at any time and place be resumed although not regularly adjourned from time to time or from place to place:

And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose save to His Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance of these presents or by His Excellency’s direction, the contents of any report so made or to be made by you, or any evidence or information obtained by you in the exercise of the powers

hereby conferred upon you except such evidence or information as is received in the course of a sitting open to the public:

And it is hereby declared that the powers hereby conferred shall be exercisable notwithstanding the absence at any time of any one or any two of the members hereby appointed so long as the Chairman, or a member deputed by the Chairman to act in his stead, and three other members be present and concur in the exercise of such powers:

And We do further ordain that you have liberty to report your proceedings and findings under this Our Commission from time to time if you shall judge it expedient so to do:

And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to His Excellency the Governor-General in writing under your hands and seals not later than the thirty-first day of August one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof:

And lastly, it is hereby declared that these presents are issued under the authority of the Letters Patent of His late Majesty King George the Fifth dated the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and under the authority of and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand.

In witness whereof we have caused this Our Commission to be issued and the Seal of Our Dominion of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed at Wellington, this 16th day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, and in the fourth year of Our Reign.

Witness Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of Our Royal Victorian Order, Companion of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of Our Distinguished Service Order, upon whom has been conferred Our Decoration of the Military Cross and Bar, Lieutenant-General on the retired list of Our Army, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over New Zealand; acting by and with the advice and consent of Our Executive Council.

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command—

S. G. HOLLAND,
for the Minister of Finance.

Approved in Council—

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Officer Authorized to Take Statutory Declarations

C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1927, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby authorizes Hector Nevynne Gunn, being Group Insurance Manager, Government Life Insurance Office, Wellington, to take and receive statutory declarations under that section.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 2nd day of March 1955.

J. R. MARSHALL, Minister of Justice.

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