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Contribution is payable at tho rate of £70 a year in certain cases of non-commissioned officers who hold the local rank of Warrant Officer, Class I, while serving in colonial employment. As resident service in West Africa (including Nigeria) is counted double for Army pension, the pension contributions in respect of the periods actually served in that area will be at double the above rates. Medical and Dental Treatment. ]1. A soldier on leave in the United Kingdom requiring medical or dental, treatment or found to be medically unfit on return from colonial employment will be treated as far as possible in a military hospital or dental centre, or otherwise by Royal Army Medical Corps or Army Dental Corps officers, and for such treatment no charge will be made by the War Office against the Colonial Government. If, owing to special circumstances, such a soldier cannot bo so treated and is obliged to consult a civil medical or dental j>ractitioner, or go into a civil hospital, he will be dealt with by the Army authorities as if he had been taken ill when on Army furlough, and the medical or dental expenses necessarily incurred at the ordinary Army rates with the approval of the Army medical or dental authorities will be recoverable by the War Office from the borrowing Government. In the case of a soldier admitted to a military hospital for treatment a charge of 10s. a day will be made in respect of his maintenance. When the soldier is in receipt of full colonial pay, one half of the cost will be borne by the individual, the other half by the borrowing Government. When the soldier is in receipt of half rates of colonial pay, the whole of the cost of hospital maintenance will be borne by colonial funds. Reversion to Army after Leave. 12. In order to avoid the concurrent issue of pay from Army and colonial funds soldiers will not as a rule be restored to the Army until the expiration of their colonial leave. All possible steps will be taken to ensure that individuals are sent Home in sufficient time to allow of ieave being taken before the period of secondment expires. In the exceptional case of an individual being required to rejoin his Imperial unit before his colonial leave has expired, it shall be decided, on the merits of the case whether the individual shall be allowed to draw any colonial gratuity to which he may be entitled in lieu of leave despite his having been taken on pay from Army funds. Premature Termination of Employment. 13. The premature termination of a soldier's colonial employment, whether on account of misconduct or any other cause, does not relieve the borrowing Government of any of the liabilities referred to in this memorandum. July, 1923.

No. 24. New Zealand, Dominions No. 341. My Lord, — Downing Street, 10th September, 1923. I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copy of the Southern Rhodesia (Annexation) Order in Council, 1923. A Proclamation has been issued by the High Commissioner for South Africa bringing this Order in Council into operation on the 12th September. I have, &c, DEVONSHIRE. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 30th Day of July, 1923. Present: The Kino's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas the territories in South Africa situate within the limits of the Southern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1898, and known as Southern Rhodesia are under the protection of His Majesty the King : And whereas British subjects have settled in large numbers in the said territories, and it is expedient, with a view to tho further development and more convenient administration of the said territories, that they should be annexed to and should henceforth form part of His Majesty's dominions : Now, therefore, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows : — 1. This Order may be cited as tho Southern Rhodesia (Annexation) Order in Council, 1923. 2. Until further provision shall be made in respect thereof, the limits of this Order are the parts of South Africa bounded by the Portuguese Possessions, by the Union of South Africa to a point opposite the mouth of the River Shashi, by the River Shashi to its junction with the Tati and Ramaquaban Rivers, thence by the Ramaquaban River to its source, thence by the watershed of the Rivers Shashi

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