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(10.) Medals belonging to Orders. Royal Victorian Medal (Gold and Silver). Imperial Service Medal. Medal of the Order of the British Empire. Medal of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. Badge of the Order of the League of Mercy. Royal Victorian Medal (Bronze). Foreign orders (in order of date). Foreign decorations (in order of dale). Foreign, Medals (in order of date). 3rd June, 1.918.

No. 37. New Zealand, Dominions No. 438. My Lord, — Downing Street, 9th August, 1918. With reference to my telegram of the Bth August, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copies of an extract from the London Gazette of the 30th July, relative to the revocation of the license of the 13th April, 1917, which enabled persons on the statutory list to apply for the grant or registration of letters patent, trade-marks, and designs. I have, &e, 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. Revocation of License to apply on behalf of Persons on 'run Statutory List pop Letters Patent, Thade-marks, and Designs. To whom it may concern. Whereas by a license dated the 13th day of April, 1917, permission was given to every person or body of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the United Kingdom to apply, on behalf of any person or body of persons whose name then was or should thereafter be placed on the statutory list of persons with whom trading is forbidden by any Proclamation issued under the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Act, 1915, for the grant, or for the renewal of the grant, of any ktters patent, or for the registration, or for the renewal of the registration, of any trade-mark or design, in the United Kingdom or in certain parts of His Majesty's Dominions on the said license specified, and for that purpose to transact all business necessary for the purposes of the application : And whereas it appears to me thai Hie matters and things allowed by the said license should no longer be permitted : Now, therefore, 1, Ernest Murray Pollock, Knight Commander of the British Empire, one of His Majesty's Counsel, a member of the Commons House of Parliament, Controller of the Foreign Trade Department of the Foreign Office, in pursuance of the authority given me in this behalf by His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, hereby, on behalf of His Majesty, revoke the license so given on the 13th day of April, 1917, and give notice that all matters and things which were by the said license permitted are from "the date hereof prohibited by the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Act, 1915, and the Proclamation issued thereunder. Ernest M. Pollock. Foreign Office, Foreign Trade Department, 27th July, 1918. (Extract from the London Gazette No. 30821. 30th July, 1918.)

No. 38. New Zealand, No. 153. My Lord, — . Downing Street, 23rd August, 1918. With reference to my despatch, No. 97, of the 31st May, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, to be laid before your Ministers, copies of a Circular Instruction to Examiners and Notice to Candidates issued by the Board of Trade regarding relaxations in the regulations relating to the examination of engineers in the mercantile marine. I have, &e, WALTER H. LONG. Governor-General His Excellencv the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.M-G., M.V.0., &c.

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