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C.O. 885

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No. 64.

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(No. 765.) SIR,

(Received 11 January, 1913.)

[Answered by No. 115.]

High Commissioner's Office, Pretoria, December 23rd, 1912. WITH reference to your despatch, Miscellaneous, of May 4th,* and subsequent telegraphic correspondence, I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from the Deputy Resident Commissioner, Maseru, forwarding a collection of Basutoland photographs for the use of the Visual Instruction Committee.

2. I also transmit a collection of photographs taken in Swaziland which have been received from the Resident Commissioner at Mbabane.

3. I hope to be in a position to forward photographs taken in the Bechuanaland Protectorate shortly.

(H.C. No. 124/12.)

MY LORD,

I have, &c.,

GLADSTONE,

High Commissioner.

Enclosure in No. 64.

Resident Commissioner's Office, Maseru, December 17th, 1912. WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch, No. 94/7, of 10th June, 1912, I have the honour to transmit a selection of photographs taken by Sub-Inspector E. S. W. Green and Acting Sub-Inspector R. W. Booth, which it is hoped will be found of use to the Committee in the preparation of illustrated lectures on South Africa, and which the Committee are at liberty to reproduce in the form of lantern slides.

I have, &c.,

BARRY MAY, Deputy Resident Commissioner.

The Viscount Gladstone, P.C., G.C.M.G.,

High Commissioner for South Africa.

His Excellency

The Right Honourable

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No. 65.

GIBRALTAR.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 20 January, 1913.)

[Enclosure sent to Crown Agents, 27 January, 1913. L.F.]

Gibraltar, 11th January, 1913. REFERRING to your despatch, Miscellaneous, of the 7th June last,† forwarding a copy of a book of lectures entitled "The Sea Road to the East," I have the honour to inform you that arrangements have been made with the managers of the public elementary schools for their pupils to receive the whole of the six lectures, illus- trated by slides, and I have, therefore, to ask that the Crown Agents for the Colonies may be authorised to incur, on behalf of this Government, the cost of furnishing the necessary slides, an indent for which (in triplicate) is forwarded herewith.

• No. 21.

I have, &c.,

ARCHIBALD HUNTER,

General and Governor.

† No. 34.

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No. 66.

NOTICE TO THE PRESS.

(Sent to Press 5 February, 1913.)

The Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office has issued a book of lantern lectures on Australasia, the third of a series for which a special fund was raised by a Committee of ladies presided over by Lady Dudley and under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, then Princess of Wales.

The book, which is illustrated by maps and views, is being published by Messra George Philip and Son, and the slides may be bought from Messrs. Newton and Company, of 37, King Street, Covent Garden.

The Committee will next issue a set of lectures on British North America, and lectures on South Africa are being prepared. Books on India and on the Sea Road to the East have already been published.

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No. 67.

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this Seventh day of February 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) 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 Seven Lectures on Canada and Newfoundland" 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.

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3. The Publishers agree to exonerate the Committee from all cost 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 will 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.