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No. 28. New Zealand, No. 241. My Lord,-- Government House, Wellington, 27th September, 1929. With reference to your predecessor's despatch, Dominions No. 584, of the 11th December last, and to my despatch, No. 194, of the 16th August, relative to the participation of His Majesty's Government in New Zealand in the various research bureaux established as a result of the Imperial Agricultural Research Conference, 1927, I have the honour to inform you, on the advice of my Ministers, that the following gentlemen have been nominated to act as local correspondents in the subjects named : — Bureaux. Local Correspondent. 1. Soil Science .. ..Mr. T. Rigg, M.A., M.Sc., F.1.C., Assistant Director, Cawthron Institute, Nelson. 2. Animal Nutrition . . Mr. B. C. Aston, F.1.C., Chief Chemist, Department of Agriculture, Wellington. 3. Animal Health . . . . Mr. C. S. M. Hopkirk, B.Y.Sc,, Veterinary Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Wallaceville, Wellington. 4. Animal Genetics .. Professor W. Riddet, B.Sc., Dean of Dairying and Animal Husbandry Faculty, Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North, and Dr. F. W. Dry, D.Sc., Lecturer in Agricultural Zoology, Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North. 5. Agricultural Parasitology . . Mr. C. S. M. Hopkirk, B.Y.Sc., Veterinary Laboratory, Department of . Agriculture, Wallaceville, Wellington, and Dr. D. Miller, Ph.D., Chief of the Entomological Department, Cawthron Institute, Nelson. 6. Plant Genetics . . . . Dr. F. W. Hilgendorf, D.Sc., Director, Wheat Research Institute, Canterbury Agriculture College, Lincoln,, Canterbury, and Mr. E. Bruce Levy, B.Sc., Agrostologist, Plant Research Station, Palmerston North. 7. Fruit-production .. Mr. J. A. Campbell, Director, Horticultural Division, Department of Agriculture, Wellington. 8. Economic Botany .. Dr. H. H. Allan, M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S., Plant Research Station, Palmerston North. 2. Ministers add that in all cases where a certain amount of specialization has occurred two correspondents have been recommended, in order that the objects of the bureaux may be dealt with in the most complete manner possible. In each case the first-named correspondent is to be regarded as taking precedence. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. Lord Passfield, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 29. New Zealand, No. 250. My Lord, — Government House, Wellington, 3rd October, 1929. With reference to Your Lordship's' despatch, Dominions, No. 388, of the 22nd August, relative to the revision of the British Pharmacopoeia, I have the honour to inform you that my Ministers have arranged for the Director-General of Health to communicate forthwith direct with the Secretary of the Pharmacopoeia Commission, as suggested, with a view to the establishment of direct correspondence on this subject. I .have," '&c',*' CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right lion. Lord Passfield, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.