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GENTLEMEN,

COLONIAL

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No. 78.

OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

Downing Street, 15 December, 1908. I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that he approves of your paying to the London School of Tropical Medicine, at any time after the 1st of January, 1909, the sum of £50, being the amount of a grant made from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund to the School, to cover the cost of additional accommodation rendered necessary by the increase in the number of students attending the School.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

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GENTLEMEN,

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No. 80.

QUEENSLAND.

COLONIAL OFFICE to CROWN AGENTS.

Downing Street, 16 December, 1908. I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that he approves of your paying from the Tropical Diseases Research Fund the sum of £400 to the Agent- General for Queensland, being the amount of a grant from the Fund towards the establishment of an Australian School of Tropical Medicine, at Townsville, in the State of Queensland.

2. The payment should be made forthwith and the Agent-General for Queens- land has been requested to take steps for the transmission of the sum in question to the Government of Queensland.

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST

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No. 79.

CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 17 December, 1908.)

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No. 81. QUEENSLAND.

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE AGENT-GENERAL.

Downing Street, 16 December, 1908.

request of the I AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to inform you that at the Bishop of North Queensland, and on the recommendation of the Advisory Com- mittee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, his Lordship has approved of the

donation of £400 from the Fund towards the establishment of an Australian School of Tropical Medicine at Townsville, in Queensland.

2. Lord Crewe has instructed the Crown Agents for the Colonies to pay to you the sum of £400 forthwith, and I am to request that you will take steps to secure that a similar amount may be placed at the disposal of the governing body of the proposed school in Queensland.

DEAR MR. KEITH,

Pay Department, Crown Agents, 16 December, 1908. In reply to your letter of yesterday, about the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, the income for this year, made up of contributions, is as follows:-

Commonwealth of Australia

SIR,

£200

Gold Coast

200

Southern Nigeria

200

Southern Nigeria (Lagos)

Ceylon

Straits Settlements

Federated Malay States

llong Kong

Trinidad

Fiji

Sierra Leone

Gambia

British Guiana

Grenada

150

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

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100

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

Colonial Office

India Office

Rhodes Trustees

50

250

500

200

2. There has been no contribution from Mauritius and no donation from Dominica.

3. I take this opportunity of asking you whether the contributions mentioned in Colonial Office letter, 20390/1904, of the 26th of July, 1904,* expire with the payment made this year, or whether one more payment is due. Your letter does not seem to be quite clear on this point. We have made five payments so far. The same applies to the Hong Kong contribution mentioned in Colonial Office letter, 20390/1904, of the 8th of September, 1904.†

4. Perhaps you will like to know that our authority for the contributions mentioned below has run out, and no further payments can be made without fresh authority:-

Fiji.

Southern Nigeria.

British Guiana. Trinidad.

India Office.

Yours, &c.,

LOUIS ADAMS.

No. 82. AUSTRALIA.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. (No. 426.)

MY LORD,

Downing Street, 16 December, 1908.

WITH reference to Lord Northcote's telegram of the 3rd of June,* I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund have had under their considera- tion an application from the Bishop of North Queensland for a grant towards the cost of founding an Australian Institute of Medical Research.

2. I enclose a copy of the letterf in which the Bishop made application for a grant.

3. The Advisory Committee have recommended, and I have had pleasure in approving, that a donation of £400 should be made from the Research Fund towards the expenses of the Institute.

4. Payment of the sum will be made from the Fund to the Agent-General for Queensland for transmission to the Government of Queensland, which, it is under- stood, will be officially represented on the Governing Board of the new Institute.

5. I may add that it gives me much pleasure that a School of Tropical Research in Australia should be thus established, and I have every wish for the prosperity of the Institute.

I have, &c..

CREWE.

* No. 129 in Miscellaneous No. 170.

† No. 156 in Miscellaneous No. 170.

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