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Appendix B. — Advice as to Facilities for Education and Training. 1. General advice as to facilities for all sorts of training in the United Kingdom can be obtained from the District Directorates of the Appointments Department. 2. Special advice as to facilities for training can be obtained :— (a.) As regards higher education in the United Kingdom and at foreign universities : Service Students Bureau, Board of Education, King Charles Street, Whitehall, London S.W. 1. (&.) As regards office and works training:— (i.) In the United Kingdom—At any District Directorate of the Appointments Department, (ii.) Overseas or in foreign countries —At Overseas Appointments Bureau, Appointments Department, St. Ermin's Hotel, London S.W. 1. (c.) Agricultural training in the United Kingdom : Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Whitehall Place, London S.W 7 . I. (d.) As regards universities (including facilities for agricultural education in the British Empire overseas) : — (i.) Canadian Universities : Khaki University of Canada, 1 Charing Cross, London S.W. 1. (ii.) Australian Universities : Australian Universities Committee, c/o Director of Education, Australian Imperial Force. 32 Grosvenor Place, London S.W. 1. (iii.) University of New Zealand : Director of Education, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 78 Gray's Inn Road, London W.C. I. (iv.) South African Universities : Staff Officer, South African Military Forces, 65 Victoria Street, London S.W. 1. or, as regards (i) or (iv) above, —The Secretary, Imperial Education Committee, War Office (S.D. 8), Adastral House, Victoria Embankment, London E.C. 4. Special forms of application applicable to universities in the British Empire overseas can also be obtained at the addresses given in (5) (ii) and (d). Special forms of application applicable to foreign universities may be obtained at the address given in (a).

No. 24. New Zealand, Dominions No. 360. My Lord,— Downing Street, Bth May, 1919. At the desire of Her Majesty the Queen, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, to be laid before your Ministers, a medal struck at the time of the Investiture of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at Carnarvon. The medal was designed by Sir W. Goscombe, R.A. The Queen thinks that some representative institution in New Zealand would be glad to possess this medal, which commemorates an event of so much interest in the life of His Royal Highness, and it will give great pleasure to Her Majesty to present it to such institution as your Ministers may think most suitable. I have, &c„ MILNER. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C, G.C.M.G, G.B.E, M.V.O, &c.

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No. 25. New Zealand, Dominions No. 365. My Lord,— Downing Street, 10th May, 1919. With reference to my predecessor's telegram of the 13th August, 1918, I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that His Majesty's Government have now decided to allow changes of names of merchant ships. 2. The conditions on which the change of a ship's name may be authorized have been amended to provide that the name proposed must not already be the name of a registered British ship, or a name which has been on the register at any time within the last twelve months, or so similar to any such name as to be calculated to deceive. A name which is already the name of another ship or has been on the register during the last twelve months may, however, be allowed (a) if the vessel is used solely as a pleasure yacht, (b) if the vessel is intended to replace another of the same name, and belonging to the same owner, whose register has been closed or whose name has been changed, or (c) in the case of vessels plying.only within a harbour and known by numbers, if the number

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