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SCHEDULE. Countries from which Importation is not prohibited. United States of America. Dominion of Canada. Union of South Africa. Norway. Channel Islands. Isle of Man.

No. 33. New Zealand, No. 118. My Lord, — Downing Street, 19th April, 1912. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 17th instant, expressing the grief of your Government and the people of New Zealand at the terrible loss of life caused by the wreck of the " Titanic." Your telegram has been communicated to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the directors of the White Star Line, and to the Press. I have, &c, L. HARCOUET. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.

No. 34. New Zealand, No. 122. My Lord,— Downing Street, 19th April, 1912. With reference to my despatch, No. 183, of the 23rd May, 1911, I have the honour to transmit to you, to be laid before your Ministers, the accompanying copy of a letter from the Board of Education on the subject of the proposed establishment of a standing committee in accordance with the resolution unanimously adopted by the Imperial Education Conference of 1911 (pages 13 and 14 of Cd. 5666). 2. I shall be glad to learn in due course what official your Government proposes to nominate to serve on this committee. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c. Enclosure. Sic,— Board of Education, Whitehall, London S.W., 3rd April, 1912. I am directed by the Board of Education to address the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of the Imperial Education Conference. 2. A reference to the report of the Imperial Education Conference of 1911 will show that the Conference recommended the appointment of a committee in connection with the Imperial Education Conference, consisting of the accredited agents in London of the several Governments concerned, together with representatives of the Colonial Office, the India Office, the Board of Education, the Scotch Education Department, and the Irish Office. The Conference further resolved that in its opinion the functions of this committee should be, — (a.) To keep itself acquainted with the progress made by the Office of Special Inquiries and Reports in carrying out the work which the Conference may desire that office to undertake: (b.) To communicate with the several Governments concerned, when necessary, with a view to facilitating the progress of that work : (c.) To consider the suggestions submitted in due course by the several Governments of the Empire as to subjects of discussion to be included among the agenda of future meetings of the Conference: (d.) To facilitate the construction of the agenda paper by communicating, when necessary, through its individual members, with the several Governments concerned. 3. The Conference also made various suggestions for facilitating the exchange of information between the various Education Departments of the Empire. 4. It will be within the memory of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that a Conference on Education, at which representatives of Education Departments and educational institutions from nearly all parts of His Majesty's dominions took part, was invited by the League of the Empire to meet in London in May, 1907, and that the delegates present at this Conference resolved that a