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No. 14. New Zealand, No. 142. Sir,— Government House, Wellington, 4th July, 1925. With reference to your despatch, Dominions No. 185, of the 29th April, I have the honour to inform you that my Ministers regret the inability of New Zealand to participate in the Permanent International Trade Exhibition to be held at New Orleans in September next. 2. Ministers state that this decision has been arrived at owing to the fact that New Zealand is at present participating in the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, and that most of these exhibits will not be available for display purposes until after October. The Government of New Zealand is also participating in a local International Exhibition to be held at Dunedin in November, and the exhibits for this Exhibition are now being collected and will not be available for further display until after the end of April, 1926. 3. My Government, however, is prepared to assist the authorities conducting the Exhibition to get in touch with commercial and industrial interests in New Zealand, and, with that end in view, communicated with the President of the New Orleans Exhibition on the 12th June. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 15. New Zealand, No. 155. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 15th July, 1925. With reference to your despatch, Dominions Treaty No. 9, of the 10th February, I have the honour to transmit to you, at the instance of my Ministers, the accompanying instrument of ratification setting forth New Zealand's formal acceptance of the Universal Postal Union Convention of Stockholm, 1924. The instrument setting forth New Zealand's formal acceptance of the agreement for the exchange of insured letters and boxes concluded at Stockholm on the 28th August, 1924, is also enclosed. 2. My Ministers would be glad if these instruments could be deposited at Stockholm not later than the Ist September next. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor- General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 16. New Zealand, No. 158. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 11th July, 1925. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, Dominions No. 214, of the 20th May, forwarding a copy of a note to the French Ambassador regarding the participation of His Majesty's Government and the Government of India in the Conference which it is proposed to hold at Paris to consider the revision of the International Sanitary Convention of 1912. 2. My Ministers advise me that they hope to be able to arrange for New Zealand to be represented at the Conference which, as advised in your telegram of the 23rd June, is now due to open at Paris on the 10th May, 1926. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies.