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Trade Journal of the 16th November, explaining the terms of an agreement arrived at by an interdepartmental committee which was appointed to define the spheres of work of the Imperial Institute and the Department of Commercial Intelligence of the Board of Trade. I have, &c, WALTER H. LONG. Governor His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. Co-operation between the Board of Trade and the Imperial Institute. At a recent conference presided over by the Right Hon. L. Harcourt, M.P., and attended by representatives of the Colonial Office, the Board of Trade, and the Imperial Institute, the following resolutions were adopted with a view to facilitating co-operation between the Department of Commercial Intelligence of the Board of Trade and the Imperial Institute, and to preventing unnecessary overlapping of their respective activities : — (1.) The Imperial Institute should deal with inquiries as to the sources of supply of raw materials produced within the Empire in connection with their industrial and commercial utilization. Either the Board of Trade or the Imperial Institute may deal with inquiries as to supplies immediately available, but the Board of Trade should, as a rule, deal with inquiries for ordinary supplies of well-recognized raw material through the usual trade channels. (2.) The imperial Institute should undertake all necessary investigations of the value and uses of raw materials produced within the Empire. (3.) The Imperial Institute and the Board of Trade should co-operate in cases in which the questions concerned involve special statistical and trade information as well as technical treatment.

No. 15. New Zealand, No. 2. My Lord, — Downing Street, 10th January, 1917. With reference to my predecessor's despatch, No. 507, of the 6th July, 1916, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers', a copy of a despatch from the Governor-General of Canada furnishing the names of members appointed to the Honorary Advisory Council on Industrial and Scientific Research. I have, &c, WALTER H. LONG. Governor His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. Sir, — Government House, Ottawa, 13th December, 1916. I have the honour to forward herewith, for your information, copies of the document noted in the subjoined schedule. I have, &c, The Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Devonshire.

Privy Council, Canada. Certified Copy of a, Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor-General on the '29th November, 1916. The Committee of the Privy Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Trade and Commerce, advise that the following gentlemen be appointed as members of the Honorary Advisory

Date. Description. Subject. 1916. 19 November Approved minute of the Privy Council Honorary Advisory Council on Indus for Canada. (P.C. 2967) trial and Scientific Research.