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No. 124.

WINDWARD ISLANDS.

THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Grenada. No. 123.)

(Received 16th September, 1914.)

SIR,

Grenada, 19th August, 1914. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular despatch of the 29th May, 1914, on the subject of the proposal made by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology that the official Entomologists of the Empire should be invited to a Conference to be held in London in July, 1915.

2. In reply, I beg to say that there can be no doubt that such a Conference must be productive of good. As there is no Government Entomologist or Mycologist in any one of the three Colonies of the Windward Islands, the Entomologist and the Mycologist attached to the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, the Department by whose advice in agricultural matters the several Colonies are guided, may possibly be selected by you to attend at the Conference on behalf of their Department and the Colonies of the West Indies without individual repre- sentation.

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(No. 43.)

SIR,

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No. 127.

VICTORIA.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 19th October, 1914.)

State Government House, Melbourne, 9th September, 1914. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 32, of the 29th May last,* and, in reply, to inform you that, inasmuch as the International Entomological Congress was held in London as recently as 1912, at which this Government was represented, my Ministers do not consider it necessary to be represented at the proposed Conference next year.

Any information, however, that would be of assistance to the Conference, and which it is in the power of my Government to afford, will be gladly given

I have, &c.,

A. L. STANLEY. (A copy of this despatch has been sent to the Governor-General.)

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No. 125.

I have, &c.,

DOUGLAS YOUNG,

Acting Governor.

LEEWARD ISLANDS.

THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(No. 340.) SIR,

(Received 29th September, 1914.)

Government House, 10th September, 1914.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular despatch of 29th May, on the subject of the representation of this Colony at the Conference of Official Entomologists of the Empire to be held in London in July, 1915.

2. I am advised that, as the Leeward Islands possess no Government Entomo- logist, their representation should be confided to an officer of the Imperial Depart- ment of Agriculture, and I have so informed the Commissioner of Agriculture for the West Indies.

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SIR,

No. 128.

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received October 21st, 1914.)

(General. No. 799.)

High Commissioner's Office, Pretoria, October 1st, 1914. WITH reference to your Circular despatch of May 29th,† I have the honour to enclose copies of despatches as noted in the margin on the subject of the proposed Conference of Official Entomologists of the Empire to be held in 1915.

Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Pro- tectorate, No. 107, 23 June, 1914.

Administrator, Northern Rhodesia, No. 262,

6 July, 1914.

Administrator, Southern Rhodesia, No. 137, 24 July, 1914.

At the request of the Acting Resident Commissioner of Swaziland the Union

Government have agreed to authorise their delegate to represent Swaziland at the Conference.

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No. 126.

I have, &c.,

T. A. V. BEST,

Acting Governor.

I have, &c.,

BUXTON,

High Commissioner.

Enclosure 1 in No. 128.

MALAY STATES.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 6th October, 1914.)

(No. 445.) SIR,

Government House, Singapore, 29th August, 1914.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular, dated May 29th, 1914,* on the subject of the proposed Conference for Official Entomologists which the Imperial Bureau of Entomology intends to hold in London during the latter part of July, 1915.

2. I regret that the Government of the Federated Malay States is unable to spare an Entomologist to attend the Conference.

* No. 82.

I have, &c.,

R. J. WILKINSON.

(H. C. 107.)

MY LORD,

23rd June, 1914. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's despatch, No. 13/88, of the 19th instant, transmitting a copy of a circular from the Secretary of State on the subject of the proposed Conference of Entomologists to be held at London next year.

Resident Commissioner's Office, Mafeking,

2. There are no nurseries in the Protectorate, and we are able to deal success- fully with all scale, Australian bug, &c., on such fruit and other trees and shrubs as exist in private orchards and gardens, &c., by spraying, and other means approved by the various Agricultural Colleges, &c.

3. We have, as you are aware, the machinery for dealing with locusts, and the Union Bureau meets all requirements at present.

4. Any organised compulsory measures for destruction of house flies and mosquitoes in native towns composed of huts and with a teeming population would

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