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done to death would not greatly interest 

 the average reader, and it will not be 

 attempted here. Let it suffice, in the 

 near approach of the conclusion of the 

 labours of the Committee of Inquiry, 

 when the fullest information on this 

 subject will, with the weight of their 

 authority, be given to the public, to 

 specify briefly the range of their in- 

 vestigations. 



The Committee were appointed in 

 1904, and during the first two years they 

 were mainly occupied with measures of 

 organisation for the accomplishment of 

 the task appointed to them. From what 

 has been said of the opinions regarding 

 grouse disorders prevalent prior to the 

 nomination of this Committee, and the 

 contradictory views and resulting con- 

 fusion and uncertainty up to that time, it 

 may be said, if exception is made of the 

 investigations of Cobbold and Klein 

 before referred to, that the Committee 

 commenced their labours with a blank 

 sheet, or at scratch, to use a common col- 



