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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

      ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth:

      TO:

         JAMES CARVEL McCOLL

      GREETING:

      We DO by these Our Letters Patent issued in Our name by Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia on the advice of the Federal Executive Council and pursuant to the Royal Commissions Act 1902 and every other enabling power, appoint you to be a Commissioner to inquire into the most efficient and cost-effective integrated system that might be instituted in Australia for the purpose of providing storage, handling and transport services and port terminal services to Australian grain marketing authorities and organisations and Australian grain growers for the storage, handling and transporting of wheat and other grains -

          (a) in the course of, or for the purposes of, overseas or interstate trade or trade with a Territory; or

          (b) in a Territory or for the purposes of marketing or use in a Territory:

      AND We direct you to make such recommendations arising out of your inquiry as you think appropriate, including recommendations regarding the legislative or administrative changes, if any, that are necessary or desirable:

      AND, without restricting the scope of your inquiry or in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, We direct you, for the purposes of your inquiry and recommendations, to give particular attention to the following matters, namely -

          (c) the standard of the grain storage, handling and transport services and port terminal services sought by Australian grain marketing authorities and organisations and Australian grain growers and the appropriateness of those standards;

          (d) the institutional arrangements to which the organisations providing grain storage, handling and transport services and port terminal services are at present subject and any alternative arrangements that might be made;

          (e) whether any of the institutional arrangements at present in operation have the effect of limiting the kinds of bodies that provide grain storage, handling and transport services and port terminal services;

          (f) the capital and cost structures (including personnel levels and operating procedures) at present used by the organisations referred to in paragraph (d) and -

             (i) the effect of technological developments on those structures; and

             (ii) the ability of those structures to adapt to technological developments;

          (g) the present accounting practices of the organisations referred to in paragraph (d) and the present contractual arrangements, or other arrangements, between those organisations or between any of those organisations and Australian grain marketing authorities and organisations or Australian grain growers and the kinds of practices and arrangements that might be adopted or made in order to promote the most cost-effective provision of such services;

          (h) the effect on Australian grain marketing authorities and