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Enclosure. By the King. A Proclamation declaring that the Name of " Windsor " is to be borne by His Royal House and Family, and relinquishing the use op all German Titles and Dignities. George R.I. Whereas We, having taken into consideration the name and title of our Royal House and Family, have determined that henceforth our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor : And whereas We have further determined, for ourselves and for and on behalf of our descendants and all other the descendants of our grandmother Queen Victoria of blessed and glorious memory, to relinquish and discontinue the use of all German titles and dignities : And whereas We have declared these our determinations in our Privy Council : Now, therefore, We, out of our Royal will and authority, do hereby' declare and announce that as from the date of this our Royal Proclamation our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of our said grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said name of Windsor : And do hereby further declare and announce that We, for ourselves and for and on behalf of our descendants and all other the descendants of our said grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these realms, relinquish and enjoin the discontinuance of the use of the degrees, styles, dignities, titles, and honours of Dukes and Duchesses of Saxony and Princes and Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and all other German degrees, styles, dignities, titles, honours, and appolations to us or to them heretofore belonging or appertaining. Given at our Court, at Buckingham Palace, this seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and in the eighth year of our reign. God save the King!

No. 50. New Zealand, Dominions No. 481. My Lord,— Downing Street, 26th July, 1917. With reference to my despatch, Dominions No. 321, of the 28th May, I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that I have asked the Army Council to bring to the notice of the Secretary of State for War, as Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, the resolution by the Imperial War Conference on the 23rd April, viz. : ' That the Imperial War Graves Commission be requested as soon as possible after their appointment and organization to prepare an estimate of the probable cost of carrying on the work entrusted to them, and to submit the same to the Governments of the United Kingdom and oversea Dominions, with their recommendation as to the proportion that should be borne by each." I have, &c, WALTER H. LONG. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool P.C., G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

No. 51. New Zealand, Honours. My Lord, — Downing Street, 27th August, 1917. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's despatch, No. 168, of the sth July, from which I learn with regret of the death of Sir George McLean, who had been associated for so many years with public affairs in the Dominion of New Zealand. I have, &c, WALTER H. LONG. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

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