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COLONIAL OFFICE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR NEW ZEALAND).
SIR,
[Copy to Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 14th January, 1915. L.F.]
Downing Street, 9th January, 1915.
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th of January,* and to request you to inform the High Commissioner for New Zealand that, owing to the war, it has been decided to post- pone indefinitely the Conference of Official Entomologists which it was proposed to hold in London in July next. This decision was communicated to the Governor of New Zealand in a despatch dated the 20th of November, 1914.†
2. Mr. Harcourt notes that the Government of New Zealand are in favour of mycologists as well as entomologists attending the Conference, and that the officer whom they would probably depute as their representative would be Mr. A. H. Cockayne.
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IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.
MINUTES OF THE SEVENTEENTH MEETING OF THE FINANCE SUB- COMMITTEE, held at the COLONIAL OFFIce at 4.30 p.m. ON THURSDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY, 1915.
DR. HARMER (Chairman),
Present:
SIR DAVID PRAIN,
MR. READ,
SIR STEWART Stockman,
MR. MARSHALL,
MR. NEAVE,
MR. PARKINSON.
1. THE minutes of the sixteenth meeting of the Sub-Committee were approved, subject to one small alteration.
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2. The question of financing the Bureau after 1915 was considered. memorandum§ detailing the income of the Bureau was circulated to members before the meeting, and the Secretary pointed out that, as shown by the memorandum, the contributions which expired at the end of 1915-16 would be those promised for three years from 1913-14 inclusive, by the Imperial Treasury, and the Governments of India, Canada, South Africa, Australia and the Australian States, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Hong Kong, Malay States, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Fiji.
Mr. Marshall presented an estimate of expenditure for the year 1916-17 (£5,375), which it was clear could not be nearly met should these contributions not be renewed. He estimated the balance at the 31st of March, 1915, at £2,400, of which £1,000 was allocated for tropical African work.
The Sub-Committee recommended that the Indian, Dominion and Colonial Governments should be asked to renew their contributions for three years from 1916-17, and that, when the replies had been received from these Governments, a similar application should be made to the Imperial Treasury.
The Sub-Committee were further of the opinion that it would not be politic in present circumstances to raise the question of placing the Bureau on a permanent basis or of increasing the amounts contributed to its upkeep.
It was remarked, incidentally, that for no apparent reason the amount of interest received by the Bureau on its funds deposited with the Crown Agents for the Colonies had fallen considerably in the last quarter. Mr. Marshall was requested to communicate with the Crown Agents and clear up the matter.
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