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New Zealand, Dominions, No. 851. My Lord, — Downing Street, 29th November, 1919. With reference to Viscount Milner's despatch, Dominions, No. 623, of the 6th August, I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that Joint Standing Industrial Councils have now been set up for the following additional industries : the wrought hollow-ware, the electrical-cable making, the tramway, the quarrying, the cement-manufacturing, and the Scottish baking industries. I have, &c, L. S. AMERY, For the Secretary of State. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Earl of Liverpool, P. 0., G.C.M.G., G.8.E., M.V.0., &c.

No. 5. New Zealand, Dominions, No. 852. My Lord, — Downing Street, 3rd December, 1919. With reference to Viscount Milner's despatch of the 10th April last and subsequent correspondence, I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that, on the recommendation of the Managing Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, I have agreed that the Conference of Entomologists which is to be held in London next year should assemble on the Ist June instead of the 19th May. I have, &c, L. S. AMBRY, For the Secretary of State. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Earl of Liverpool, P. 0., G.C.M.G., G.8.E., M.V.0., &c.

No. 6. New Zealand, No. 206. My Lord, — Downing Street, Bth December, 1919. I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that a communication has been received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty stating that their attention has been drawn to the possible value of Penryhn and Suvarov Islands in connection with naval problems affecting the Pacific, and requesting that no lease may be granted of these islands in future without their Lordships being first consulted. I hope that your Ministers will be able to meet the wishes of the Admiralty. I have, &c, L. S. AMERY, For the Secretary of State. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.M.G., G.8.E., M.V.0., &c.

No. 7. New Zealand, Dominions, No. 856. My Lord, Downing Street, 9th December, 1919. I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, to be laid before your Ministers, a copy of a letter from the War Office regarding the award of the Meritorious-service Medal without annuity. 2. War Office letters on this subject have been previously addressed to the London Headquarters of the New Zealand Forces. I have, &c, L. S. AMERY, For the Secretary of State. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Earl of Liverpool, P. 0., G.C.M.G., G.8.E., M.V.0., &c.