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No. 4. New Zealand, No. 16. My Lord, — Government House, Wellington, 30th January, 1919. With reference to Colonial Office despatch No. 204, of the 21st April, 1915, relative to the request of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to be notified at the commencement of each year of any changes in existing appointments or of any new appointments of Trade Representatives of New Zealand in foreign countries, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship, at the instance of my Acting Prime Minister, that no changes were made during the year 1918. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, Governor-General. The Right Hon. Viscount Milner, P.C., G.C.8., &c, Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 5. New Zealand, No. 33. My Lord, — Government House, Wellington, sth March, 1919. I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that a notice giving the purport of your predecessor's despatch, Dominions No. 700, of the 6th December, 1918, relative to the upkeep of the " Otter " gear, will be published in the New Zealand Gazette for the information of mariners and others. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, Governor-General. The Right Hon. Viscount Milner, P.C., G.C.8., &c, Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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No. 6. New Zealand, No. 35. My Lord, — Government House, Wellington, sth March, 1919. With reference to your predecessor's despatch, No. 195, of the 26th October, 1918, regarding the renewal of the contribution of New Zealand to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that my Ministers will be pleased to renew the contribution of £200 hitherto paid to the bureau, for a further period of five years. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, Governor-General. The Right Hon. Viscount Milner, P.C., G.C.8., &c. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 7. New Zealand, No. 37. MY Lord, — Government House, Wellington, sth March, 1919. With reference to your predecessor's despatch, Dominions No. 713, of the 13th December, 1918, intimating that the Government of the Nyasaland Protectorate had imposed a war-tax on correspondence posted in the protectorate for delivery in other parts of the world, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that my Ministers have given the necessary instructions in accordance with the new rates that took effect as from the 16th September, 1918. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, Governor-General. The Right Hon. Viscount Milner, P.C., G.C.8., &c., Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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