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No. 42.

THE VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to THE COUNTESS OF

DEAR LADY DUDLEY,

DUDLEY.

Downing Street, S.W., 16 July, 1912.

I AM desired by the members of the Visual Instruction Committee to ask you to accept these two books, which represent the first completed stages of a work in which we owe so much to your help.

You may be interested to learn that we expect to issue a book on Australasia during the present year, and that this will be followed at intervals by volumes dealing with British North America and with South Africa.

I am, &c.,

MEATH.

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In witness whereof the Crown Agents have hereunto set their hands and the Publishers have caused their Common Seal to be hereunto affixed the day and year first above written.

Signed by one of the Crown Agents for the Colonics in the presence of:

HERBERT F. SMITH,

4, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.,

Clerk.

The Common Seal of George Philip and Son Limited was hereunto affixed in the presence of:

GEORGE PHILIP, FREDERICK BENNETT, )

Directors.

W. H. MERCER.

(L.S.)

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

........................... C.O. 885

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ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- [

LONDON

No. 43.

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this twenty-third day of July one thousand nine hundred and twelve between the Crown Agents for the Colonies (hereinafter called the Crown Agents) acting on behalf of the Visual Instruction Com- mittee of the Colonial Office (hereinafter called the " Committee "') of 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 Arthur John Sargent, M.A., entitled Eight Lectures on Australasia 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.

4. The Publishers shall pay to the Crown Agents a royalty of ten per cent, on 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 royalties shall be paid on any copies given away for review or other purposes.

5.

The Publishers 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. The Publishers undertake the delivery of the copies required to be delivered to certain public libraries.

7. This Agreement shall remain in force for a term of five years from the date of publication of the said work and at or after the expiration of that period it may be determined by six months' previous notice in writing by either party and on the determination of this Agreement unless determined by the Publishers the Committee shall purchase from the Publishers all unsold copies of the said work at a discount of 33 per cent. from the published price.

SIR,

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE ADMIRALTY. [Answered by No. 46.]

Downing Street, 30 July, 1912.

IN connection with the scheme which it is understood is now in operation for the circulation of lantern slides in Naval establishments, I am directed by Mr. Secre tary Harcourt to request you to bring to the notice of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the work of the Visual Instruction Committee of this Office.

2. The aim of the Committee is to provide on uniform lines illustrated lectures on the whole of the Empire for use both in this country and in the oversea Dominions. Lectures on the United Kingdom, on India, and on the possessions in the Mediter- ranean, and in the East, have already been issued and copies of the books are enclosed. The cost of the slides illustrating the lectures is given in a note prefixed to each volume.

3. The next set of lectures will deal with Australasia and further sets dealing with the Union of South Africa and Canada are being prepared.

4. I am to add that the slides illustrating the lectures on the United Kingdom and on India are used by the War Office.

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I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

TRADES COMMISSIONER FOR THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA to VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE.

(Received August 29, 1912.)

Trades Commissioner's Department,

1912.

Union Government of South Africa,

90, Cannon Street, E.C., 29th August, Photographs of South Africa for Lantern Slides to be used by the "Visual Instruc- tion Committee."

SIR,

WITH reference to my letter of the 12th June,* and to previous correspondence on the above subject, I am directed to inform you that a reply has been received from the Manager of the Publicity Department of the South African Railways, that many of the photographs in the Natal Guide Book, asked for by Mr. Sargent, were loaned to the Department by private persons; and it is regretted that it is not possible to supply these. Copies of the Railway Department's photographs are, however, being prepared, and will be forwarded as early as possible.

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