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Returned to tie Hon. the Minister of Industry. The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1900, and the Workmen's Compensation Act Amendment Act, 1904, are repealed by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1911. Under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1911, if in any employment personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman, the employer is liable to pay compensation in accordance with the scale and conditions laid down by the Act. A workman means a person working in connection with his employer's trade or business under a contract of service, or apprenticeship, whether expressed or implied, oral or in writing, at manual work, with certain exceptions. 1. Seamen. —A seaman, where the injury occurs outside the territorial jurisdiction of South Australia, is not a workman within the meaning of the Act, and consequently cannot recover compensation for an injury. But the Act does apply in respect of an accident happening to a workman employed on a South Australian ship if the accident happens out of and in the course of his employment, provided it happens within the State or within the jurisdiction of the State. 2. Reciprocity. —The South Australian law applies to workmen without distinction of race or nationality, and there is nothing in the Act to indicate that dependants residing outside the State are not entitled to receive compensation. 3. Statistics. —No provision has been made for the collection of statistics. H. A. Shieblaw, sth March, 1912. Solicitor to^lndustry.

No. 46. New Zealand, No. 156. My Lord,— Downing Street, 24th May, 1912. I have the honour to inform you that your telegram of the 16th instant has been laid before His Majesty the King, and that I have been commanded to convey the grateful thanks of His Majesty and Her Majesty Queen Alexandra to you and the Government and people of New Zealand for your kind message of sympathy on the death of His Majesty the King of Denmark. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.

No. 47. New Zealand, No. 163. My Lord,— Downing Street, 31st May, 1912. I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers, a copy of a notice relating to a new quarterly publication to be issued by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine entitled Annals of Tropical Sanitation. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.

Enclosure. Notice.—Annals op Teopical Sanitation. It is proposed to issue shortly, in connection with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, a newquarterly publication called the Annals of Tropical Sanitation. The Annals will be edited by Professor Major Sir Ronald] Ross, K.C.8.,|D.P.H., M.D., D.Sc, LL.D, F.R.S., with the assistance of Colonel W. G. King, C.1.E., D.P.H, M.8., CM., Professor W. J. Simpson, C.M.G., D.P.H., M.D., F.R.C.P., and possibly of other collaborators working in different parts of the world. The Annals will be issued in at least four parts every year. The annual volume will contain at least five hundred pages, and the size of the page will be the same as that of the Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology issued by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The annual subscription will be one guinea, payable in advance, for which the Annals will be sent post-free. The price of separate numbers will be 7s. 6d. The Annals of Tropical Sanitation will deal with the whole subject, including not only the practical application of sanitary measures in the tropics, but also the scientific study of tropical endemiology ; with discoveries bearing upon the subject; with the application of statistical methods ; with sanitary engineering ; with sanitary legislation ; and with the best means of perfecting sanitary organization, investigation, and practice. It will contain original articles on all branches of the subject; reviews and abstracts of similar articles published elsewhere; analyses of official health reports from all over