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No. 6. New Zealand, No. 15. My Lord, — Downing Street, 23rd January, 1923. I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that it has been decided that Imperial pensioners who were serving on the Permanent Staff of a Dominion or Colonial Military Eorce on the outbreak of war may have reassessment of their pre-war pensions with effect from the Ist April, 1919 ; or, if they undertook a special engagement for war service, the reassessed rate shall be granted from the Ist April, 1919, or from the date (if later) on which the war engagement terminated and they reverted to the Perm anient Staff. 2. In this connection reference is invited to Army Order No. 325 of the 13th September, 1919. I have, &c, DEVONSHIRE. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

No. 7. New Zealand, Dominions No. 38. My Lord,— Downing Street, 26th January, 1923. With reference to my predecessor's despatch, Dominions No. 483, of the 3rd December, 1921, and to Your Excellency's despatch, No. 123, of the 13th May last, I have the honour to request you to inform your Ministers that, as a result of the inquiries that were made, the Board of Trade found that most Governments were prepared to accept a seaman's discharge-book in lieu of a passport or an identity certificate for the purposes of any regulations affecting the temporary landing of foreign seamen in their respective countries, but that in a great many cases it would be necessary for a photograph of the seaman to be fixed to his discharge-book in order that it might be accepted for this purpose. 2. The Board of Trade accordingly brought the matter to the notice of the seamen's organizations, and have suggested, that they might wish to advise their members to have photographs inserted in their discharge-books; and the Superintendents of Mercantile Marine Offices have been instructed to authenticate such photographs, when requested to do so, by impressing the office - stamps partly on the photograph and partly on the book. I have, &c, DEVONSHIRE. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

No. 8. New Zealand, No. 26. My Lord, — Downing Street, 6th February, 1923. With reference to Lord Milner's despatch, Dominions No. 16, of the 10th January, 1921, and to the report of the proceedings of the British Forestry Conference held in London, 1920, copies of which were subsequently transmitted to Your Excellency from the Office of the Forestry Commission, I have the honour to request you to remind your Ministers that it was considered desirable that meetings of a similar character should be held at least once every three years in order that the component parts of the Empire might have an opportunity to come closer in touch with each other for the purpose of discussing progress in forestry and for the exchange of ideas regarding policy and methods. More particularly I have to refer to Resolution No. 11 of the Conference in which the desire was expressed that, with the approval of the Dominion Government, the next meeting should be held in Canada during 1923. I have now received from the Governor-General of Canada a despatch stating that the Canadian Government have approved the suggestion, and have arranged for

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