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No. 1. New Zealand, No. 1. Sir, —- Government House, Wellington, 4th January, 1929. With reference to your despatch, Dominions No. 480, of the 25th September last, relative to the request of the Mexican National Irrigation Commission for information regarding rural buildings in British possessions, I have the honour to transmit to you, at the instance of my Ministers, eleven copies of plans of cottages which are erected by the Public Works Department in New Zealand. 2. Ministers state that some of these plans are considered, to be out of date in this country, but that they may suit the purposes of the Commission better than the more up-to-date and consequently more expensive type in use at the present time. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Go vernor- General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 2. New Zealand, No. 3. Sir, —• Government House, Wellington, 4th January, 1929. With reference to your despatch, No. 204, of the 3rd October last, relative to marriage-certificates of British subjects in Switzerland, I have the honour to inform you, on the advice of my Ministers, that the form of certificate suggested meets the case so far as the New Zealand marriage law is concerned, as the law in New Zealand on the subject is the same as in England. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Go vernor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 3. New Zealand, No. 14. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 25th January, 1929. With reference to your despatch, No. 248, of the Bth December last, forwarding an invitation to the Dominion of New Zealand to be represented at the First International Hospital Congress, to be held at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in June, 1929, I have the honour, at the instance of my Ministers, to ask that you will be so good as to express this Dominion's thanks for the invitation, and to intimate that His Majesty's Government in New Zealand regret that they cannot see their way to be officially represented at the Congress. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.