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Enclosure. Nobel Peace Prize. All proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed 10th December, 1920, must, in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the Ist February, 1920. Any one of the following persons is held to lie duly qualified : (a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; (/>) members of Parliament and members of Government of the different States, as well as members of the Interparliamentary Union; (c) members of the International Arbitration Court at The Hague; (d) members of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau; («) members and associates of the Institute of International Law; (/) university professors of political science and of law, of history, and of philosophy; and (17) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations. According to the Code of Statutes, section 8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated, and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to. According to section 3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print. For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammeusvei. 19, Kristiania.

New Zealand, No. 172. No. 41. My Lord, — Downing Street, 3rd October, 1919. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 112, of the 24th June, on the subject of the proposed Entomological Conference. 2. I am glad to learn that your Ministers will arrange to be represented at the Conference, and I have advised the managing committee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology that Mr. A. H. Cockayne will be deputed to attend on behalf of your Government. 3. The Conference will assemble in London on the 19th May, 1920, and if Mr. Cockayne on arrival will be good enough to communicate with the Director of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology at the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London S.W, he will be furnished with particulars as to agenda and the place and time of meetings. 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

New Zealand, No. 182. No - 42 - My Lord, — Downing Street, 22nd October, 1919. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's telegram of the 30th September, and to request you to inform your Ministers that the Minister of Health states that the agenda for the meeting of the Committee of the Office International d' Hygiene Publique at the end of October includes the discussion of the modifications which should be made in the Paris International Sanitary Convention, 1912, in respect of ships carrying plagueinfected rats, and also the question whether measures for the prevention of diseases, such as influenza, which are not at present the subject of international agreement should in future Conventions be made the subject of such agreement. 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,

New Zealand, No. 195. No - 43 - My Lord, — Downing Street, 12th November, 1919. I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that the Naval Prize Tribunal has inquired whether there are any cases connected with the Prize Courts in New Zealand with which it is likely to be called upon to deal. 2. I apprehend that no proceedings at all have been instituted in the Prize Courts in New Zealand, but I should be glad to have confirmation of this statement in order that a definite reply may be returned to the Tribunal. 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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