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proposed is not already the number of one of the vessels plying in the harbour. In, such cases a full statement of the circumstances must be submitted with the application. 3. Advertisements of the proposed change of name are again enforced. 4. The Board of Trade would be glad if your Ministers could arrange to adopt a similar policy. I have, &c, MILNER. 1 Governor-General His Excellency the, Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C, G.C.M.G, G.B.E, M.V.O, &c.

No. 26. New Zealand, Dominions No. 401. My Lord,— Downing Street, 21st May, 1919. With reference to my despatch, Dominions No. 355, of the Bth instant, I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that the Departments concerned with the administration of the officers' universities and technical-training schemes in this country are receiving occasional applications for training in the United Kingdom from persons of British nationality who have served during the war in contingents paid for by the Dominion Governments. ,2. Your Ministers will be aware from the enclosure to my despatch under reference that persons who have served in contingents for which payment is not made out of moneys provided by the Parliament of the United Kingdom are not eligible for assistance under the scheme described therein, and I should therefore be glad to learn whether your Government has sanctioned or is contemplating any assistance towards the training of any members of the New Zealand Forces, for whose payment it is responsible, who may desire to take up courses of training in the United Kingdom. I have, &c, MILNER. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C, G.C.M.G, G.B.E, M.V.O, &c.

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No. 27. New Zealand, No. 100. My Lord,— Downing Street, sth June, 1919. With reference to my predecessor's despatch, Dominions No. 186, of the 30th March, 1918, I have the honour to state, for the information of Your Excellency's Ministers, that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have had under their consideration, in conjunction with the Imperial War Graves Commission, the question of the marking of the graves of Naval officers and men who have died during the war, and that it has been decided, pending the erection of permanent memorials by the Imperial War Graves Commission, that such graves—other than those in the several theatres of war—shall be marked by the Admiralty with temporary wooden crosses. 2. Their Lordships inquire if arrangements could be made by Dominion Governments for the erection of wooden crosses over all Naval war graves in the Dominions other than those at Naval bases or those in the theatres of war which have been undertaken by the Military authorities. 3. I shall be glad if your Ministers would be so good as to cause steps to be taken to meet the wishes of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, should there be any Naval war graves in New Zealand which are not already sufficiently marked. 4. It is thought desirable that all crosses thus erected should, so far as possible, be of uniform dimensions and pattern. They should be constructed of 3 in. by 2 in. clean yellow deal, free from large knots and shakes, wrought all round, and with arrises chamfered and fair-chamfered ends, neatly notched together and securely screwed, with the end pointed and tarred for driving into the ; ground-

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