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The term " such subject " will be taken to include (a) a firm which by reason of its constitution may be considered as managed or controlled by such subjects, or the business whereof is wholly or mainly carried on on behalf of such subjects; (b) a company which has received its constitution in an enemy's State; (c) a company registered in His Majesty's dominions the business whereof is managed or controlled by such subjects, or is carried on wholly or mainly on behalf of such subjects. 2. As regards applications for patents or trade-marks, no distinction will in the first place be drawn between those made by such subjects and those made by other persons. All proceedings thereunder will be carried on as usual down to the time of acceptance, but in the case of applications by such subjects formal acceptance will not be issued. 3. Applicants who fail to conform to the provisions of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911, and the rules made thereunder, will run the risk of losing their rights, unless they are able to bring themselves under the provisions of Rule 8 of the rules set out above. Applications under Rule 8 (a) should be made and will be considered at such time as the applicant, patentee, or proprietor of a design or trade-mark, as the case may be, is in a position to do the said act or file the said document as aforesaid. Applications under Rule 8 (b) should be made before the date for the doing of any such act. 4. As regards oppositions to the grant of patents and the registration of trade-marks, arising after the commencement of war, (a) opposition by such subjects where the grant or registration opposed is one to a British citizen or alien friend will not be entertained; (6) in the case where the grant or registration opposed is a grant or registration to any such subject, the notice of opposition will be accepted, but all further proceedings will be suspended until the end of the war. 5. As regards inventions for which patents are applied for by the nominee or assignee of the inventor, or some person deriving the invention from such actual inventor, these will be treated in the same manner as if made directly by the inventor. REVOKING LICENSE PERMITTING PAYMENT OP CERTAIN PEES IN RESPECT OP PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE-MARKS. Liverpool, Governor-General. Whereas by a Warrant dated the seventeenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and issued in pursuance of the power conferred by the Royal Proclamations relating to trading with the enemy, license was given and granted to all persons resident, carrying on business, or being in New Zealand— To pay any fees necessary for obtaining the grant or renewal of patents, or for obtaining registration of designs or trade-marks, or the renewal of such registration, in any enemy country; And also to pay on behalf of an enemy any fees payable in New Zealand on application for or renewal of the grant of a patent, or on application for the registration of designs or trade-marks, or the renewal of such registration : And whereas it is deemed desirable to revoke the said license : Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power conferred by the said Royal Proclamations, and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, do hereby revoke the said license of the seventeenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, as from the nineteenth day of September now instant, and do hereby notify that all payments authorized by the said license are, as from the said date, prohibited under the Royal Proclamations relating to trading with the enemy. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twelfth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. Thomas M. Wilford, Minister of Justice.

No. 3. New Zealand, No. 13. My Lord, Government House, Wellington, 30th January, 1919. With reference to your predecessor's despatch, No. 209, of the 14th November, 1918, with regard to the establishment of an Imperial Bureau of Mycology for the purpose of supplementing the work of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that the Government of New Zealand fully appreciate the importance of the proposal, and arrangements will be made for the contribution from New Zealand—viz., £100 —to be paid in due course to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, and for similar payments to be made during the two succeeding years. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, Governor-General. The Right Hon. Viscount Milner, P.C., G.C.8., &c, Secretary of State for the Colonies.