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No. 63. New Zealand, No. 50. Sir, —■ Government House, Wellington, 10th April, 1913. With reference to your despatch, No. 21, of the Bth January, on the subject of the carrying of colours by regiments of the New Zealand Territorial Force, I have the honour to inform you, in answer to the concluding paragraph of your despatch, that my Ministers concur in the proposal that the 11th New Zealand Regiment be permitted to retain its original title of " Taranaki Rifles," and to keep possession of the private colours presented to it by the ladies of Taranaki so long as it does not carry colours whilst retaining that designation. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

A..-2, 1913, No. 104.

No. 64. New Zealand, No. 56. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 23rd April, 1913. With reference to your despatch, No. 52, of the 30th January last, and to previous correspondence on the subject of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on the 17th January, 1912, I have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a memorandum received from my Prime Minister, intimating that the Government of New Zealand is prepared to adhere to the articles of the said Convention. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 65. New Zealand, No. 58. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 24th April, 1913. With reference to your despatch, No. 78, of the 21st February, and to my telegram of the 18th March, relative to the restrictions on the importation of livestock into this Dominion from Great Britain, I have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a memorandum, dated 11th April, which I have received from my Prime Minister on the subject. 2. In view, however, of your telegram of the 3rd April, relating more particularly to the question of restrictions in connection with the importation of stock shipped from Liverpool and the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, the matter has again been carefully considered by my Government, and I have received a further memorandum, dated 21st April, from my Prime Minister, a copy of which is enclosed. 3. It will be observed from this memorandum, the substance of which was communicated to you in my telegram of to-day's date, that, although my Government regret that no modification of the existing restrictions can at present be made, in the event of there being no further outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease during the next month they will favourably consider the question of removing the restrictions which have been imposed in respect of the whole of Great Britain. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies,

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