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No. 19.

NEW ZEALAND.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR NEW ZEALAND to COLONIAL OFFICE.

SIR,

(Received 18 July, 1913.)

Westminster Chambers, 13, Victoria Street,

London, S. W., 17th July, 1913. REFERRING to your letter of the 20th February last, No. 3732,* and to the last paragraph of mine of the 29th May,† with regard to the nomination of the representative of New Zealand on the Managing Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, I am now directed by the High Commissioner to inform you that, on behalf of the New Zealand Government, he nominates Mr. Ernest E. Austen, of the Entomological Department of the Natural History Section of the British Museum, as the representative of New Zealand on that Committee.

As you are aware, Mr. Austen is already a member of the Committee, and the Trustees of the British Museum have kindly given their consent to his acting as New Zealand's representative. The High Commissioner will be glad, therefore, to learn that Mr. Austen's nomination has been duly recorded.

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I am, &c.,

C. WRAY PALLISER;

Secretary to the Department.

No. 20. AUSTRALIA.

COLONIAL OFFICE to THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR AUSTRALIA,

Downing Street, 17 July, 1913.

SIR,

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th of July, stating that Mr. F. V. Theobald will represent the Commonwealth Government on the Managing Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

2. This information will be communicated to the Committee at their next General Meeting.

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I am to add that Lord Crewe proposes, if Mr. Secretary Harcourt sees no objection, to nominate a representative to sit on the Committee, and has, at the suggestion of the Chairman of the Committee, approached Mr. Lefroy with a view to securing his services in this capacity. It is proposed that he should attend the meeting of the Committee on the 25th instant.

I have, &c.,

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No. 22.

T. W. HOLDERNESS.

MINUTES OF THE SIXTEENTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE MANAG- ING COMMITTEE OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFIce at 12 noon ON FRIDAY, 25TH JULY, 1913.

AGENDA,

1. To pass the minutes of the 15th General Meeting.

2. To receive the report from the Chairman of the Finance Sub-Committee.

3. To receive the quarterly report of the Director of the Bureau.

4. To receive a copy of a despatch to the Officer Administering the Government

of Ceylon on the subject of a contribution to the Bureau from the Municipality of Colombo.

5. To consider what steps should be taken with regard to continuing the employment of Mr. Neave and Mr. Simpson.

6. To receive a copy of correspondence with the India Office and to consider what action should now be taken.

ENCLOSURES.

(1) Minutes* of the 15th General Meeting (Agendum 1).

(2) Report from Finance Sub-Committeet (Agendum 2).

(3) Report from the Director‡ (Agendum 3).

(4) Secretary of State to Officer Administering the Government of Ceylon§

(Agendum 4).

(5) Report from India Office on yellow fever|| (Agendum 6).

Colonial Office to India Office.I

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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No. 21:

I am, &c.,

H. W. JUST.

INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

(Received 23 July, 1913.)

[Answered by No. 25.]

SIR,

I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to inform you, with reference to my letter of the 31st December last, § that the Government of India have now reported that the Governing Body of the Indian Research Fund have decided to contribute £500 a year for a period of three years towards the objects of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. This decision is based on the value of the work to be undertaken by the Bureau in its sanitary, as well as its agricultural, aspects; and it is presumed, with reference to paragraph 5 of your letter, No. 12909, of the 5th June, 1913,|| on the subject of Major James's yellow fever Report, that the grant will place the Entomological Research Committee in a position to carry out the proposed inquiry regarding stegomyia suggested by Major James. sum in question (£500) will be paid by this Office on receipt of a receivable order.

India Office, Whitehall, London, S. W., 22 July, 1913.

* L.F. transmitting copy of No. 132 in Miscellaneous No. 271.

‡ No. 17.

No. 102 in Miscellaneous No. 271,

PRESENT:

The EARL OF CROMER (Chairman).

Colonel ALCOCK.

Mr. AUSTEN.

Dr. BAGSHAWE.

Dr. HARMER.

Professor LEFROY.

Sir J. MCFADYEAN.

Professor NUTTALI..

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir D. PRAIN.

Mr. READ.

Dr. SHIPLEY.

Mr. THEOBALD.

Mr. MARSHALL (Director).

Mr. PARKINSON (Secretary).

1. The Minutes* of the 15th General Meeting were passed.

2.

A report was received from the Chairman of the Finance Sub-Committee recommending

(1) That the balance of £708 standing to the credit of the late Entomological

Research Committee should, at any rate for the present, be retained

The

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↑ No. 24.

No. 8.

No. 68 in Miscellaneous No. 274. 1 No. 81 in Miscellaneous No. 274.

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