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Thus for overseas officers on leave wishing to make a special study of afforestation methods in Great Britain and of recent development in silvicultural systems on the Continent, a period from the middle of January to the middle of September will fully cover all necessary work, both theoretical and practical. If time is more limited and visits to Continental forests are alone contemplated, then these can be best arranged in the Easter or long vacations (middle of March to end of April, and July to September). Admission to Institute. 5. Students admitted to the Institute may be included under one or other of the following categories : — (a.) 'Students possessing a University degree in forestry, or a diploma or equivalent certificate of having satisfactorily completed an approved training in forestry, who have been selected as probationers for the higher branch of some Forest Service. (6.) Graduates with honours in science who desire to become specialists in some branch of science in its application to forestry. (c.) Forest officers deputed to attend courses. (d.) Students of approved qualifications not included in the first three categories who are admitted on the recommendation of overseas Governments (see Empire Forestry Conference, 1923, App. A. (para. 6 (b) )). (e.) Students with a University training in forestry who may wish to attend the Institute on their own account and at their own expense. Preference in the matter of admission will be given to students deputed by the Forestry Commission and to students deputed by the Colonial Office on behalf of the Forest Services of the non-self-governing colonies and protectorates, in view of the financial support arranged for by the Forestry Commissioners and the Colonial Office. Names of students proposing to attend the Institute in the academic year 1924-25 should be sent to the Director, Forestry Institute, Oxford, in time to reach him by the Ist September, 1924. At the same time information should be furnished regarding their previous training and, so far as possible, the subjects which they propose to study. Fees. 6. A fee of £75 per annum will be charged for instruction at the Institute. If the course of studies extends over less than one year, the fees charged will be £25 per term, and £1 per week for tours in the vacations. These fees will include all charges for instruction both at Oxford and on tour, as well as for the use of apparatus, materials, library, &c. ; they will not include living and travelling expenses. No fees will be chargeable by the Institute to students sent to the Institute by the Forestry Commission or the Colonial Office. Forestry Commission, 22 Grosvenor Gardens, London S.W. 1, April, 1924.

No. 16. New Zealand, Dominions No. 195. My Lord, — Downing Street, 28th April, 1924. I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, to be laid before your Ministers, copies of an extract from the proceedings of the Imperial Economic Conference containing the resolution adopted by the Conference on the subject of flag discrimination. 2. His Majesty's Government endorse this resolution. I have, &c., J. H. THOMAS. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. Economic Defence. Flag Discrimination. The Conference discussed this subject at their thirteenth meeting, held on Tuesday, the 23rd October, 1923. The following resolution was before the Conference : —• " In view of the vital importance to the British Empire of safeguarding its overseas carrying trade against all forms of discrimination by foreign countries, whether open or disguised, the representatives of the Governments of the Empire declare, — "1. That it is their established practice to make no discrimination between the flags of shipping using their ports, and that they have no intention of departing from this practice as regards countries which treat ocean-going shipping under the British flag on a footing of equality with their own national shipping.

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