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Enclosure in No. 120.
(New Hebrides. No. 219/14.)
SIR,
British Residency, Vila, 9th June, 1914. In continuation of my despatch, No. 177, of the 29th April last, I have the honour to report that I have been advised by Surgeon-Major Munier, the Condo- minium Medical Officer, that he has collected specimens of the mosquitoes infesting this neighbourhood and has forwarded them to the Director-General of his service (Medical Corps of the French Colonial Army) by whom they will be transmitted to the Bureau of Entomology in London.
I have advised the Director of the Bureau to the above effect.
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inform you that I have received a communication from my Premier in which he states that it is not proposed that this State should be represented thereat.
I am sending a copy of this despatch to His Excellency the Governor-General.
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I have, &c.,
ARTHUR MORGAN,
Lieutenant-Governor.
His Excellency the
High Commissioner for the New Hebrides.
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No. 121.
ZANZIBAR.
I have, &c.,
M. KING. Resident Commissioner.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 12th September, 1914.)
(No. 25.)
Government House, Nairobi, British East Africa,
28th July, 1914
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular despatch of May 29th,* with enclosure, regarding a proposal by the Imperial Bureau of Entomo- logy that the official entomologists of the Empire should be invited to a Conference in London during July, 1915, and to inform you that I concur generally in the proposal.
2. It will not be possible for Dr. Aders, who is responsible for entomological work in Zanzibar, to attend the proposed Conference, as he is proceeding on leave in September next, and intends to return to Zanzibar and take up further work in March, 1915.
3. There is no mycologist in the service of the Zanzibar Government.
4. With reference to paragraph 2 of your despatch. I have no suggestion to make with regard to the provisional programme, of which a copy was enclosed in your despatch.
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I have, &c..
H. CONWAY BELFIELD,
High Commissioner.
No. 122.
QUEENSLAND.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 12th September, 1914.)
(No. 44.) SIR,
Government House, Brisbane, 31st July, 1914. WITH reference to your despatch, No. 44, of the 29th May last,† relative to the Entomological Conference to be held in London in July, 1915, I have the honour to
No. 123.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(No. 661.)
(Received 12th September, 1914.)
Governor-General's Office,
SIR,
Pretoria, 20th August, 1914. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith, with reference to your despatch, No. 239, of the 29th May, 1914, a copy of a Minute, No. 766, from Ministers, dated 17th August, on the subject of a proposal by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology that a Conference of official Entomologists of the Empire be held in London during the latter part of July, 1915.
(Minute. No. 766.)
I have, &c.,
DE VILLIERS.
Acting Governor-General.
Enclosure in No. 123.
Prime Minister's Office, Pretoria, 17th August, 1914. MINISTERS have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of His Excellency the Governor-General's Minute, No. 33/532, of the 18th June last, transmitting copy of a despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, communicating a proposal by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology that a Conference of official Entomologists of the Empire be held in London during the latter part of July, 1915.
In reply thereto, Ministers beg to state, for the information of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, that they fully concur in the proposal made by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, and that arrangements will be made for Mr. I. B. Pole Evans, Chief of the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, to attend the Conference as the delegate of the Union Government.
With regard to the provisional list of subjects to be discussed at the Conference, Ministers are of opinion that considerable benefit might accrue from enlarging the scope of the Conference so as to include discussions on phytopathological problems of general interest to the Empire, and Ministers would, therefore, suggest for the consideration of the Managing Committee of the Bureau the addition to the programme of a subject entitled :—
(6) Phytopathological problems of the Empire.
(a) Progress made in the control of cereal rusts. (b) Bacterial diseases of plants.
(c) Sugar-cane diseases.
(d) Bitter pit in apples.
(e) Silver leaf in stone fruits.
• No. 81.
LOUIS BOTHA,
No. 82.
† No. 81.
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