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No. 143.
AUSTRALIA.
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAĻ to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 162.)
(Received 18 August, 1913.)
Governor-General's Office, Melbourne, 11th July, 1913. WITH reference to your despatch, Miscellaneous, dated 20th March,* and in continuation of my despatch, dated 13th May, No. 108,† relative to the work of the Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office, I have the honour, at the instance of my Prime Minister, to inform you that the Executive Council of the Territory of Papua, after due consideration, made the following Order on the subject:
Minute 18 of Meeting 25 of the 13th June, 1913.
"That the Minister of State for External Affairs be informed that, in view of the elementary instruction at present being imparted to the compara- tively few white children in the Territory, the Council, while fully recog- nizing the value of such instruction, is of opinion that the time is not ripe to inaugurate the visual instruction system here."
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I have, &c.,
DENMAN,
Governor-General.
No. 144.
WINDWARD ISLANDS (ST. VINCENT).
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 19 August, 1913.)
[Copy of enclosure with photographs to Mr. Aspinull, 25 August, 1913.] (St. Vincent. No. 73.)
Submitted.
(No. 66.) SIR,
Grenada, 23rd July, 1913.
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J. HAYES SADLER,
Governor.
Government House, St. Vincent, 19th July, 1913. WITH reference to the Secretary of State's despatch, Miscellaneous, of the 6th May, 1913. I have the honour to forward herewith, for transmission to, and for the use of, the Visual Instruction Committee, eleven photographs (with appended short description of each) showing the typical scenery, and illustrating certain aspects of the life of the inhabitants, of St. Vincent.
His Excellency
I have, &c.,
C. GIDEON MURRAY,
Administrator.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Hayes Sadler, K.C.M.G., C.B.,
&c..
&c., Grenada.
&c.,
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† No. 117.
‡ No. 105.
Enclosure in No. 144.
DESCRIPTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS SUBMITTED FOR VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEF.
1. Kingstown Bay.
1 (a) Part of Kingstown Bay and Kingstown.
2.
Government House.
3. Sea Island cotton at the Government Factory, showing gins and manner
in which they are fed by shoots.
room.
4.
Cotton ginnery. General view, showing ginnery, store room, and purchase On the right of ginnery is road in course of extension.
5. Arrowroot, ready for exportation.
6. Arrowroot mill. Showing pipes leading water (1) on the ground, (2) on
the left to wash the roots, and (3) on the foreground to turn wheel for grinding.
6 (4) Wallilabo Buildings,
7. The Soufrière-mounted-a recent view.
7(a) Soon after eruption in 1902.
8. Caribs. In everyday costume. The man on the left (George Morgan) is regarded by them as their representative.
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No. 145.
AGREEMENT WITH MESSRS. G. PHILIP & SON, LTD. MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 21st day of August One thousand nine hundred and thirteen BETWEEN the Crown Agents for the Colonies (hereinafter called the Crown Agents) acting on behalf of the Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office (hereinafter called the "Committee ") on the one part and George Philip and Son Limited whose registered office is situate at 32 Fleet Street in the City of London (hereinafter called the Publishers) of the other part. WHEREAS the Crown Agents have been authorised by the Committee to enter into this Agreement as the Agents of the Committee and whereas the Committee has prepared a work by Algernon E- Aspinall Esquire entitled The West Indies and British Guiana or some such title as shall be hereafter mutually agreed upon and is desirous of having the same printed and published Now IT IS HEREBY AGREED AS FOLLOWS that is to say :-
1. The copyright of the said work as regards title contents and illustrations shall be the property of the said Committee.
2. The Publishers agree to make prepare produce and publish the said work to be sold at the price of eightpence net in paper cover and one shilling net in cloth cover.
3. The Publishers agree to exonerate the Committee from all costs and expenses in or about the making preparation production or publication of the said work except in so far as is provided by Clause & hereof.
4. The Publishers shall pay to the Crown Agents a royalty of ten per cent. où all copies of the said work sold by them PROVIDED ALWAYS that in the case of any copies sold at reduced prices for foreign or colonial or other sales the said royalty shall be calculated upon the prices so obtained and not upon the published price and PROVIDED ALSO that no royaltics shall be paid on any copies given away for review or other purposes.
5. The l'ublishers shall keep true and accurate accounts of all copies of the said work sold by them and shall make up the accounts half-yearly to the 30th day of June and the 31st day of December in every year and shall within six weeks after the end of each half-year send to the Crown Agents a copy of the account for the half-year then last past together with the amount due to the Committee for royalties in respect of such half-year.
6. After the expiration of two years from the date of publication of the said work if there be a loss on the account of the first edition of five thousand copies thereof the Committee agree to make good such loss up to a total sum not exceeding £50 (Fifty Pounds) and the Publishers agree thereafter to credit to the account of the Committee a sum per copy sold being the quotient obtained by dividing the number of unsold copies at the end of the two years into the sum paid by the Committee, and the Publishers agree to account to the Committee for any amount due as aforesaid in addition to and at the same time as the royalties as provided in Clause 4 hereof.
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