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No. 77.
MR. F. G. A. BUTLER (PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE) to THE QUEEN'S PRIVATE SECRETARY.
DEAR MR. WALLINGTON,
[Answered by No. 78.]
Downing Street, 28 February, 1913. WITH reference to my letter of the 31st of January and your reply of the 3rd of February,* I am desired by the members of the Visual Instruction Committee to send you this copy of their book of lectures on Australasia, and to ask you to submit it to the Queen for Her Majesty's gracious acceptance.
A book on Canada and Newfoundland is in the press, and one on South Africa is well advanced.
The publishers were permitted on two earlier occasions to announce that Her Majesty had been graciously pleased to accept copies of the books on India and on the Sea Road to the East, and the Committee desire ine to ask whether a similar privilege may be extended to them in this case.
Yours very truly,
F. G. A. BUTLER.
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Enclosure 2 in No. 79.
FROM RESIDENT COMMISSIONER, MAFEKING, TO HIGH COMMISSIONER, CAPE TOWN. TELEGRAM.
February 10th, No. 188. With reference to my despatch, No. 20, of 8th instant, posted to Your Excellency, I have to-day received following from Lieutenant Hannay:
"The negatives of a large number of photographs illustrating scenery, native life, and customs in N'Gamiland are with the Kodak Company, Regent Street, London. Should they prove to be of any interest the Committee is welcome to take prints from them."
Mr. Hannay's photos were, many of them, very interesting, and I should recom- mend the Committee to obtain the negatives, and select those they may wish to reproduce.
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No. 80,
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885
22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE[] BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
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No. 78.
THE QUEEN'S PRIVATE SECRETARY to MR. F. G. A. BUTLER (PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE).
DEAR MR. Butler,
(Received 3 March, 1913.)
Buckingham Palace, 1st March, 1913.
I HAVE submitted your lettert to the Queen, and am commanded by Her Majesty to request you to be so good as to convey to the members of the Visual Instruction Committee an expression of the Queen's sincere thanks for the copy of their book of lectures on Australasia which they have kindly sent for Her Majesty's acceptance.
I am further to say that the Queen is glad to grant permission for the publishers to announce that Her Majesty has accepted this copy.
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SIR,
No. 79.
I am, &c.,
E. W. WALLINGTON.
SOUTH AFRICA.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 1 March, 1913.) [Answered by No. 115.]
(Miscellaneous. No. 93.)
High Commissioner's Office, Cape Town,
February 12th, 1913.
WITH reference to my despatch, No. 765, of December 23rd,‡ I have the honour to forward a collection of Bechuanaland Protectorate photographs for the use of the Visual Instruction Committee, together with original correspondence* relating to them.
2. I also enclose a copy of a telegram from the Resident Commissioner of the Protectorate respecting certain photographs taken in Ngamiland by Lieutenant Hannay, of the Protectorate Police.
I have, &c.,
GLADSTONE,
High Commissioner.
MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE AT 3.30 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY THE 5th of March, 1913.
PRESENT:
Sir PHILIP HUTCHINS (In the Chair).
Sir CHARLES HOLROYD.
Sir EVERARD IM THURN.
Sir CHARLES LUCAS.
Mr. KEITH.
Mr. MERCER.
Mr. NOALL (Secretary).
The Minutes of the last meeting, having been previously circulated, were adopted. The correspondence was reviewed. Letters were read from the Scotch Provincial Committees to Sir John Struthers relating to the slides of the lectures on the Sea Road to the East.
The Committee were informed that, as the matter was one of urgency, permission had been given to Mr. Werner Laurie to use in an edition of Pierre Loti's "India," which Mr. Fisher was illustrating, some of the coloured reproductions already used in Mr. Fisher's book on India and Burma.
It was reported that during the half-year ended the 31st of December, 1912. 174 copies of the book on India, and 463 copies of the "Sea Road to the East" had been sold. A royalty of £1 1s. on these sales was payable to the Committee's fund. Since June, 1912, Messrs. Newton had sold one complete set of the slides of the United Kingdom series, four lecture sets of the Indian slides, and of those illus- trating the Sea Road to the East seven complete sets, four lecture sets, and 455 selected slides. The royalty due to the fund on these slides would be about £15.
It was estimated that, on the completion of the lectures on Canada and New- foundland, a balance of some £80 would remain of the original fund.
The Committee agreed that the Secretary's allowance should be continued for six months from the end of March.
It was reported that the Australasian lectures had been published, and that those on Canada and Newfoundland were being revised in proof and the illustrations for the book were being selected. The book would probably be ready for publication in June. The Secretary of State had approved the draft of a Circular despatch to the Crown Colonies informing them of the present position of the scheme, and copies of the Circular would be sent to the Governments of the Dominions.
The Committee were informed that Mr. Sargent had drafted five of the seven lectures on South Africa, and that most of the slides required had been made. to the present liabilities amounting to about £150 had been incurred in connection Up with these lectures, but no provision had yet been made for colouring slides.
* Not printed.
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