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No. 10. New Zealand, No. 687. My Lord, — Downing Street, Bth December, 1915. I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of Act 5 & 6 Geo. V, chap. 85, of the Imperial Parliament, entitled " An Act to suspend the Operation of Section Twenty-seven of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, during the Continuance of the Present War, and for a Period of Six Months thereafter." I have, &c, A. BONAR LAW. Governor His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. Patents and Designs Act (Partial Suspension) Act, 1915. Chapter 85. An Act to suspend the Operation of Section Twenty-seven of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, during the Continuance of the Present War, and for a Period of Six Months thereafter. [23rd November, 1915.] Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : — 1. The operation of section twenty-seven of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, shall be suspended during the continuance of the present war, and for a period of six months thereafter; and in reckoning the period of four years mentioned in the said section the period during which that section is suspended by virtue of this Act shall not be taken into account. 2. This Act may be cited as the Patents and Designs Act (Partial Suspension) Act, 1915.

No. 11. New Zealand, No. 688. My Lord, — Downing Street, Bth December, 1915. With reference to Your Excellency's despatch, No. 192, of the 10th November, 1914, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers, a statement of the divisible expenditure of the Dominions Royal Commission in the year ended 31st March, 1914, so far as it has been advanced from Imperial funds. In addition certain advances have been made by the dominions, and the complete statement of divisible expenditure for 1913-14 is as follows : — £ s. d. Advanced by this country ... . ... 2,338 15 3 Advanced by South Africa ... ... 732 Ll 11 Advanced by New Zealand ... ... 758 4 0 Advanced by Australia ... ... ... 1,194 16 6 Advanced by Canada ... ... ... Nil Advanced by Newfoundland ... ... Nil Total ... ... ... £5,024 7 8 The share of each dominion is therefore one-sixth of the above total, or £837 7s. 11. 2. Against this figure there has to be set off in the case of New Zealand the sum of £758 4s. for the amount due to the Government of the Dominion for divisible expenditure defrayed by it, as shown above. The amount due from your Government will therefore be £79 3s. lid. I have, &c, A. BONAR LAW. Governor His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.