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Enclosure 2 in No. 97.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.
Resolved that a sum not exceeding fifty pounds be granted from the Public Treasury to meet the cost of co-operation with the African Entomological Research Committee, twenty-five pounds being for the salary of a clerk for six months, at the rate of fifty pounds per annum, and twenty-five pounds for specimen boxes, and other miscellaneous expenditure, and that the Legislative Council be invited to concur herein, and if concurred in;
Resolved that His Excellency the Governor be requested to assent to the same and to take the necessary steps to give effect to this resolution.
21st August, 1911.
F. J. CLARKE,
Speaker.
Concurred in by the Legislative Council the 22nd August, 1911.
RICHARD HAYNES,
Senior Member, Presiding.
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I assent.
L. PROBYN,
Governor.
25th August, 1911.
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interest shown in the question by those representatives who were present leads Mr. Harcourt to hope that the scheme will prove generally acceptable to those Dominions and States, and he has suggested that, should this prove to be the case, they should contribute towards the cost of £1,200 a year in the following propor- tions:-
Canada Australia
South Africa New Zealand Newfoundland
£
300 a year. 300
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150
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100
33
50
22
£900
This leaves a deficit of £300 a year to be provided from other sources, and Mr. Harcourt would suggest, for Lord Crewe's consideration, that the Indian Government should be invited to make a contribution of this amount.
7. Mr. Harcourt cannot but think that co-operation in scientific matters between the different parts of the Empire is likely to have beneficial and far-reaching results, and that the present scheme, if carried through, would be an important step to that end.
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I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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SIR,
No. 98.
COLONIAL OFFICE to INDIA OFFICE. [Answered by No. 100.]
Downing Street, 21 September, 1911.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquess of Crewe, the accompanying papers* relating to a scheme for the more extended investigation of the noxious insects which occur in different parts of the Empire.
2. It is understood that the Government of India is deeply interested in this question, and it was, indeed, the Imperial Entomologist for India who first suggested the institution of some scheme on the lines of that which is now proposed. In this connexion, I am to call attention to his remarks on pages 2 and 3t of the printed account of the proceedings at the Conference held at the Colonial Office on the 14th of June.
3. So far as the Crown Colonies and Protectorates are concerned, the work which must form a basis for the scheme outlined in the second enclosure in this letter is being actively prosecuted by the Entomological Research Committee.
In the case of the East and West African Colonies and Protectorates, the contributions from or on behalf of which to the work of the Committee amount to £2,000 a year, large collections of noxious insects have already been made and iden- tified, and steps are being taken to secure as far as practicable the co-operation of the other Crown Colonies and Protectorates.
4. With regard to the present scheme, which concerns the Oversea Dominions and States and India and is designed to supplement the work which is already being done in the case of the Crown Colonies and Protectorates, it will be observed that the proposals now made involve an annual expenditure of £1,200 a year, but that they are admittedly of a wider scope than those concerning which the sums of £500 a year and £1,000 a year were mentioned in the course of the proceedings at the Conference of the 14th of June.
5. This larger scheme has been put forward because it seemed clear that the general opinion of the Conference was in favour of a more extended programme, but it will be understood that it is a tentative suggestion intended to elicit a more precise expression of opinion from the several Governments concerned.
6. For various reasons, such as pressure of work in connexion with the Imperial Conference, it was not found possible to arrange for a full representation of the Oversea Dominions and States at the meeting of the 14th of June, but the
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No. 88 and Enclosure 2 in No. 96.
SIR,
No. 99.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received October 13, 1911.)
(No. 78.)
| Acknowledged, Dctober 25, 1911, No. 246.]
Government House, St. John's, 28th September, 1911. In reply to your despatch Miscellaneous of the 6th September,* respecting the more extended investigation of noxious insects which occur in different parts of the Empire, I have the honour to inform you that my Ministers will gladly co- operate in this matter, and they trust that the investigation will have beneficial and far-reaching results.
2. My Government agree to the proposed allotment of the expenditure that will be necessary, whereby Newfoundland will provide the sum of £50 per annum.
I have, &c.,
WILLIAM H. HORWOOD.
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SIR,
No. 100.
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 13 October, 1911.)
India Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., 13 October, 1911. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 23995, of the 21st September, 1911.f on the subject of a scheme for the more extended investigation of the noxious insects in different parts of the Empire, and to inform you that a copy of the papers has been forwarded for the consideration of the Government of India, and that a further communication will be made to you on receipt of their reply.
I have, &c.,
• Nr. 96.
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R. RITCHIE.
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