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request of the Prime Minister, to inform you that the following are the only representatives of this Dominion in foreign countries:— Edmund Clifton, New Zealand Commissioner, Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, and New Zealand Trade Representative, Flat-iron Building, 544 Market Street, San Francisco. James G. liarle Moore, Honorary New Zealand Representative, Calle Corrientes, Buenos Aires. Both the above-named gentlemen are British subjects. 2. My Prime Minister states that it is not quite understood whether a complete list of trade representatives is required annually, or whether only the names of fresh representatives who have been appointed during the year should be supplied. It is suggested that this point be made clear. I have, &c., LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c., Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 57. New Zealand, No. 20. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, Ist February, 1915. With reference to your despatch, No. 549, of the 3rd December, forwarding copy of a letter from the National Health Insurance Commission on the subject of the supply of insurance stamps and cards to port authorities in New Zealand, I have the honour to inform you that my Ministers state, in reply to the question raised, that as there are very few discharges of seamen from ships registered in England at ports in the Dominion other than at the ports of Auckland, Wellington. Lyttelton, and Dunedin, and that as the Superintendents at the other ports can always obtain the necessary stamps from one of the four ports named, the National Health Insurance Commission need not send them to ports other than those four. I have, &c., LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c., Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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No. 58. New Zealand, ?j No.|2B.j tariff! Sir, — "Government House, Wellington, 16thf February, 1915. With reference tojyour despatch., No. 567, of the 11th December, I have the honour to inform you that my Government concur in the adoption, for use in official publications, of the name " Southern Ocean," this name to apply to the ocean bounded on the north by a line joining the southern portions of South America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and on the south by the Antarctic Continent. I have, &c., LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis*Y.|Harcourt,|P.C., &c., Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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No. 59. New Zealand, No. 39. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 3rd March, 1915. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of No. 589, of the 24th December last, forwarding copy of the report of the ninth meeting of the International Meteorological Committee, held in Berlin in 1910, and inquiring whether full meteorological returns could be sent to the Meteorological Office, South Kensington, from Rarotonga or Niue.