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No. 10. New Zealand, No. 39. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 18tli February, 1929. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 249, of the Bth. December last, and to ask that you will be so good as to convey to His Majesty's Government in the Irish Free State an expression of the thanks of my Ministers for the set of new coins of the Irish Free State which accompanied your despatch. I have. &c.. CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 11. New Zealand, No. 45. Sib, — Government House, Wellington, 25tli February, 1929. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, Dominions Treaty No. 81, of the 2nd October last, transmitting, for the information of His Majesty's Government in New Zealand, copy of the resolutions passed by the Commission on the Carte du Monde an Millionieme, which met in London on the 14th and 16th July under the presidency of General Nicola Yacchelli, to consider certain questions raised by the International Geographical Congress lield at Cairo in 1925. 2. With reference to the second paragraph of the despatch, my Prime Minister states that the proposal to fix the annual subscription to the Central Bureau at £10 sterling or its equivalent, in place of the original annual subscription of 150 francs as fixed by the International Conference held in Paris in 1913, meets with the approval of His Majesty's Government in New Zealand. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 12. New Zealand, No. 48. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 26th February, 1929. With reference to your despatch, No. 242, of the 80th November last, regarding the applications made to the Public Record Office, London, by the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, and the Canterbury Public Library, Christchurch, for any printed pamphlets relating to New Zealand which may be available, I have the honour to inform you that my Ministers would be pleased to receive all the documents which are not required by the Public Record Office. On receipt of these, Ministers state that the position could be explained to the two libraries interested and their requirements met as far as the material coming to hand permits. 2. In your despatch under reply, reference is made to Lord Crewe's despatch, No. 81, of the 16th April, 1909, which referred to twenty-five volumes of correspondence from 1840 to 1855, and mentioned the probability of the number of volumes being increased as the process of examining and checking the correspondence of the Colonial Office at the Record Office was proceeded with. The twenty-five volumes referred to have been received in this Dominion, and His Majesty's Government in New Zealand would be grateful for such volumes as are now available. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Ainery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.