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No. 13. New Zealand, No. 51. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 4tli March, 1929. With reference to your despatch of the 28th December last, No. 259, enclosing copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington in which an invitation is communicated to His Majesty's Government in New Zealand to be represented at a Pan-Pacific Surgical Conference to be held at Honolulu in August, 1929, I have the honour, at the instance of my Ministers, to ask that you will be so good as to express the thanks of His Majesty's Government in New Zealand for the invitation, and to say that they regret they will be unable to be officially represented at the Conference. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 14. New Zealand, No. 61. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 12tli March, 1929. With reference to my despatch, No. 283, of the 30th October last, relative to the Fourteenth. International Agricultural Congress, which is to be held in Roumania in May next, I have the honour to inform you, on the advice of my Prime Minister, that His Majesty's Government in New Zealand desire to be represented at the Congress, and that the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London has been requested to arrange for the nomination of a delegate. 1 have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor- General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 15. New Zealand, No. 78. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 27th March, 1929. With reference to your despatch, No. 35, of the 28th January, enclosing translation of a note from the German Ambassador regarding the proposed visit to New Zealand of Professor J. W. Mannhardt, of the University of Marburg, I have the honour to inform you that the New Zealand Government will be pleased facilities to Professor Mannhardt in the direction desired. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 16. New Zealand, No. 95. Sir.—• Government House, Wellington, 18th April, 1929. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, Dominions No. 62, of the sth February, regarding a course of study arranged by the Prison Commissioner for officers engaged in the administration of prisons overseas. 2. Ministers ask that an expression of their thanks may be conveyed to the Prison Commissioners for their invitation, but that it is regretted that His Majesty's Government in New Zealand will not be able to take advantage of the opportunity so kindly afforded. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Go vernor- General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

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