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No. 20. New Zealand, No. 65. My Lord, — Downing Street, sth April, 1921. 1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's telegram of the 12th March, and to express my satisfaction at learning that your Ministers are prepared to contribute £250 per annum for three years from the Ist January last to the Imperial Bureau of Mycology. I have, &c, J. S. AMERY, For the Secretary of State, Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

No. 21. New Zealand, Dominions No. 220. My Lord,— Downing Street, 28th May, 1921. I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, a copy of a circular letter from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to His Majesty's Representatives abroad, on the subject of the granting of visas to British passports for countries for which such passports have not been issued or endorsed by a British authority. I have, &c, WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. (Circular.) Sir,— Foreign Office, 12th May, 1921. It has come to my notice that cases have occurred in which foreign consular officers have granted visas to British passports for countries for which such passports have not been issued or endorsed by a British authority. 2. In the view of His Majesty's Government a British passport enables the holder to travel only to those countries for which it has been issued or endorsed. I shall be glad if you will bring this matter to the notice of the Government to which you are accredited, with a view to their issuing instructions to their consular officers to this effect. 3. British subjects applying to a foreign consular officer for a visa for a country for which the passport has not already been made valid should be referred to the nearest British authority, in order that the passport may first be made valid for the country concerned. I am, &c, His Majesty's Representative at . Curzon op Kkijleston.

No. 22. New Zealand, No. 110. My Lord, — Downing Street, 31st May, 1021. I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that the trustees of the British Museum, in acknowledging the receipt of various papers relating to the protection of animals in New Zealand, have expressed their gratification in receiving evidence of efforts which are being made to prevent extermination.