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one series, and suggests that you should purchase a complete series, which will be left in our hands, to cope with such additional orders for hire as otherwise could not be executed.
We can supply you a series of slides for this purpose as far as they are at present published, which will include the United Kingdom, India, The Sea Road to the East, Australasia, and Canada, for the sum of £164 nett. The two new sets (of which the prices are not yet fixed, as the sets are not ready), South Africa and the West Indies, we can supply later on, upon similar terms, to complete the series.
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As it is not quite certain yet how much this second series of slides will be engaged on hire, it is a little difficult to get at the exact cost of the correspondence and of sending them out, but we should be quite willing to undertake this for a charge of 5s. each, paying to your Lordship 2s. 6d. and to the Visual Instruction Committee 2s. 6d. on each occasion; and should we find that the number of "hires is such that we can do the work for less than 5s., we should have much pleasure in reducing the amount of our charge, and so paying your Lordship the difference. We can ascertain this in one season, and if they sent out a reasonable number of times we think it probable that our charge need not exceed 4s.
As the summer is our best time for doing this work, and as we should like to he prepared in good time for the coming season, we shall be glad to have your Lordship's decision as soon as you can conveniently let us know.
We hope it is not necessary to assure your Lordship that we shall do our utmost to make this series of slides a success, both as regards hiring and sales. Indeed, it is obvious that it is to our own interest to do so, even if we were otherwise un- interested in the work, which is far from being the case, and we feel much honoured by the confidence reposed in us by the Committee.
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No. 116. THE EARL OF MEATH to MESSRS. NEWTON AND COMPANY.
Chaworth House, Ottershaw, Chertsey,
GENTLEMEN,
proposal
June 14th, 1913. I HAVE received your letter of the 12th instant,* and accept the contained therein.
I enclose a cheque for £164, which please to acknowledge.
20373
SIR,
No. 117. AUSTRALIA.
Yours faithfully,
MEATH.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 16 June, 1913.)
(No. 108.)
Governor-General's Office, Melbourne, 13th May, 1913. WITH reference to your despatch, dated 20th March, 1913, "Miscellaneous,"+ on the subject of the work of the Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office, I have the honour to inform you that copies of the enclosure in your despatch have been forwarded to the Lieutenant Governor of Papua and the Administrator of the Northern Territory, respectively, for the information of the educational authorities in those territories.
I have, &c.,
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885
22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
We remain, &c.,
P.S. The price quoted (£164)
NEWTON AND COMPANY. below the price at which this series is supplied
to trade firms.
20388
8876
No. 115.
SOUTH AFRICA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.
[Answered by Nos. 148 and 153.]
(Miscellaneous.)
MY LORD,
Downing Street, 13 June, 1913.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Miscellaneous despatches, No. 765, of the 23rd of December, 1912, No. 93, of the 12th of February, 1913, and No. 116, of the 26th of February, 1913,* and to ask that you will cause the thanks of the Visual Instruction Committee to be conveyed to those gentlemen who have been good enough to place at their disposal photographs of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland.
2. The Committee propose to illustrate the book of lectures on South Africa by a number of views selected from the lantern slides in the same manner as in the accompanying book on India, and they would be glad to learn whether Mr. R. W. Booth and Mr. Ellenberger would consent to the reproduction in the book of any or all of the photographs of which prints are enclosed.
3. Mr. Booth's photographs were forwarded in your Miscellaneous despatch, No. 765, of the 23rd of December last,† and Mr. Ellenberger's in your Miscellaneous despatch, No. 93, of the 12th of February.
Nos. 61, 79, and 55.
↑ No. 61.
(No. 41.)
SIR,
No. 118.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
DENMAN,
Governor-General.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 16 June, 1913.)
Government House, Perth, 19th May, 1913.
WITH reference to your Miscellaneous despatch of 20th March, 1913,† on the subject of the work of the Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office, I have the honour to report that the matter has been brought under the notice of the educational authorities of this State.
I have, &c.,
HARRY BARRON,
20441
SIR,
Governor.
(No. 192.)
No. 119.
JAMAICA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 16 June, 1913.)
King's House, Jamaica, 24 May, 1913.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your circular despatch of the 17th March last, in which you inform me of the present position of the work of the Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office, and express the hope that further use may be made by this Government of the books and slides which have been prepared by the Committee.
• No. 114.
† No. 88.
‡ No. 86.
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I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
‡ No. 79.
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