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No. 31. New Zealand, Dominions No. 430. My Lord, — Downing Street, 20th November, 1923. With reference to paragraph 3 of Viscount Milner's despatch, No. 141, of the 27th\Tuly, 1920, I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that the Managing Committee of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology have had under consideration the date for the Second Imperial Entomological Conference, and that they have recommended that the Conference should be held in London in the early part of June, 1925, as originally contemplated when Lord Milner's despatch was written. 2. I have agreed that the next Conference should be held at the time suggested. In the absence of any unforeseen circumstances which may necessitate alteration the Conference will open on the 4th June, and it may be assumed that it will last for about ten days or a fortnight. 3. The value of a meeting of this nature was fully established in June, 1920, when the first Entomological Conference was held. I feel sure that if it can be arranged your Government will be glad to send a representative to the Conference. 4. The agenda will be settled later, but, apart from entomological questions of economic importance in relation to men, animals, and plants, the opportunity will be taken for the Director (Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, C.M.G., F.R.S.) to make a full statement on the work of the Bureau, and the financing of the Bureau will also be considered. 5. I shall be glad if you will inform me whether your Government will be represented at the Conference, and, if so, who will probably be deputed for the purpose. 6. I may add that the Director of the Bureau will be grateful for any suggestions as to subjects which it may be desired to place on the agenda. It would be convenient if these could be sent direct to him at the Bureau, the Head Office of which is at the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London S.W. 7. I have, &c, DEVONSHIRE. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. , Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.O, &c.

No. 32. New Zealand, Dominions No. 434. My Lord, — Downing Street, 21st November, 1923. With reference to my despatch, Dominions No. 81, of the 10th March, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of Treaty Series Paper No. 22 of 1923 (Cmd. 1978), containing notes exchanged on the 14th August, 1923, further renewing the Anglo-Italian arbitration agreement of the Ist February, 1904. I have, &c, DEVONSHIRE. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. Notes exchanged further renewing the Anglo-Italian Arbitration Agreement oe Ist February, 1904. London, 14th August, 1923. No. 1. The Italian Ambassador to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Signor Marchese, — Londra, il 14 Agosto, 1923. L'Ambasciata Britannica a Roma ha proposto al Regio Governo la rinnovazione, per un altro quinquennio, della Convenzione di Arbitrato stipulata frail Governo Britannico ed il. Governo Italiano il primo Febbraio, 1904, c successivamente rinnovata meroe scambio di note fra quosta Regia Ambasciata ed il Scgretario di Stato per gli Affari Esteri Britannico.