✨ Commission of Inquiry Appointment
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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(g) Generally upon such other matters arising out of the premises as may come to your notice in the course of your inquiries and which you consider should be investigated in connection therewith, and upon any matters which you consider should be brought to the attention of the Government:
And, with the like advice and consent, I do hereby appoint you the said Bartholomew Sheehan, to be the Chairman of the said Commission:
And for the better enabling you to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorised and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents, in accordance with the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, at such times and places as you consider 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 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 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 exerciseable notwithstanding the absence at any time of any one of the members hereby appointed so long as the Chairman, or a member deputed by the Chairman to act in his stead, and one other member are present and concur in the exercise of such powers:
And it is hereby declared that you have liberty to report your proceedings and findings under this 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 me in writing under your hands not later than the 31st day of July 1974 your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof.
Given in Executive Council under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 20th day of December 1973.
P. G. MILLEN, Clerk of the Executive Council.
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BY AUTHORITY: A. R. SHEARER, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—1973
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Appointment of Commission to Inquire into Maori Reserved Land
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🪶 Māori Affairs20 December 1973
Commission of Inquiry, Maori Reserved Land, Maori Trustee, Land Administration, Chairman Appointment
- Bartholomew Sheehan, Appointed Chairman of the Commission
- P. G. Millen, Clerk of the Executive Council