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I should be glad to be furnished with an expression of your Ministers' views on the suggestion of the Board of Trade for the establishment of such an InterImperial Committee as is indicated in the passage above quoted. I have, &c, WALTER H. LONG. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

No. 3. New Zealand, Dominions No. 752. My Lord, — Downing Street, 23rd November, 1917. With reference to my No. 32, of the 2nd March, I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty state that colonial candidates selected to attend the competitive examination for Naval cadetships, special entry, must find their own passage to England; but that if they are successful in obtaining a cadetship the cost of passage will be refunded. I have, &c, WALTER H. LONG. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

No. 4. New Zealand, Dominions No. 760. My Lord,— Downing Street, 28th November, 1917. With reference to my despatch, Dominions No. 482, of the 26th July, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copies of an Order in Council, published in the London Gazette of the 16th November, respecting the extension to French Morocco of the protection afforded by the Copyright Act, 1911. Lhave, &c, WALTER H. LONG. Governor-General His Excellencv the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. Copyright (French Protectorate of Morocco) Odder in Council, 1917. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of November, 1917. Present: The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas His Majesty, by virtue of the authority conferred on him by the Copyright Act, 1911, and having regard to the provisions of the Berlin Copyright Convention, was pleased to make an Order in Council, dated the 24th day of June, 1912 (hereinafter called the " Principal Order "), extending the protection of the said Act to certain classes of works to which protection is guaranteed by the said Convention : • And whereas His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco has acceded to the said Convention in so far as concerns that part of the Empire of Morocco which is under French protection : Now, therefore. His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by the Copyright Act, 1911, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows : — The Principal Order shall extend to that part of the Empire of Morocco which is under French protection as if it were amongst the foreign countries of the Copyright Union therein named, subject to the following modifications : — (a.) The provisions of Article 2, proviso (iii) (a), shall apply as if the aforesaid territory were included amongst the foreign countries named in those provisions. (b.) In the application of the provisions of Article 3 of the Principal Order to works of which the country of origin is that part of the Empire of Morocco which is under French protection the date of this Order shall be substituted for the commencement of the Act and for the commencement of the Principal Order.