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the contributing Dominions and colonies should be invited to send representatives to this Conference. 2. Provisional arrangements have already been made whereby members of the Mycological Conference will be able to join in the discussions of the Botanical Conference, and it is considered that the holding of a Mycological Conference would be of the greatest value both to the Bureau itself and to oversea mycologists and agriculturists generally, who would thus have an opportunity of getting into closer touch with fellow-workers and of discussing at first hand the peculiar problems which confront them. It is also hoped to arrange for an exhibit of plant-diseases of the Empire at the British Empire Exhibition, and such an exhibit cannot but be of great value and interest to mycologists in all parts of the Empire. 3. I am convinced that the Bureau is already doing very valuable and important work, and that its assistance in the solution of mycological problems is widely recognized and appreciated. I am anxious that no opportunity for closer co-operation with Dominion and colonial workers should be lost, and I should be glad, therefore, if your Government could see its way to send a representative to the Imperial Mycological Conference to be held in July, 1924. 4. In order to admit of the necessary arrangements being made for the holding of the Conference I should be glad if you would reply to this despatch by telegraph. I have, &c, DEVONSHIRE. 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. 268. • My Lord,— Downing Street, 20th July, 1923. I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that it has been represented to me, in connection with the recent-appointment by the Minister of Health of a departmental Committee to inquire into the use of preservatives and colouring-matters in foods, that it would greatly assist the deliberations of the Committee if they could have before them copies of the statutes and regulations in force in the Dominions relating to the use of preservatives and artificial colouring-matters in food and drink, whether applying to articles of food prepared in the country or to articles imported. 2. I should accordingly be glad to be furnished, for the information of the Committee, with copies, in triplicate, of any laws and regulations in force in New Zealand, and also of any reports which have been published or any memoranda which have been issued on the subject, and of any further information which it may be considered would be of assistance to the Committee. I have, &c, DEVONSHIRE. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

No. 22. New Zealand, No. 177. My Lord, — Downing Street, Bth August, 1923. I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, to be laid before your Ministers, the accompanying copy of a note from the United States Government, expressing their appreciation of the courtesies and hospitality extended to Captain E. T. Pollock, the Governor of American Samoa, and to the officers and men of the United States'ship " Ontario," on the occasion of a recent visit to New Zealand. I have, &c, DEVONSHIRE. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.