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No. 17. New Zealand, No. 182. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 17th August, 1925. With reference to your despatch, Dominions No. 192, of the 6th May, I have the honour to inform you that my Ministers advise me that no regular systematic research in connection with cancer has hitherto been undertaken in New Zealand. Such an investigation is about to begin, however, and if, as part of an Empire scheme, it would assist the Departmental Committee which has been set up by the English Ministry of Health were the New Zealand Government to undertake an investigation under the lines suggested my Government will be glad to favourably consider instituting such an inquiry. 2. It is considered that the conditions desired for such an investigation obtain in this Dominion, where the Maori race lives alongside our own, under similar conditions. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 18. New Zealand, No. 190. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 29th August, 1925. With reference to your despatch, No. 111, of the 18th June, forwarding a certified copy of an amendment to the Final Protocol of the Universal Postal Convention of Stockholm, I have the honour to transmit to you, at the instance of my Prime Minister, the enclosed document, dated the 18th August, setting forth New Zealand's formal approval of Article XII of the Final Protocol. 2. As I did not receive your despatch under reply until the 30th July, it has not been possible to comply with the requirement that the instrument of ratification should be deposited at Stockholm not later than the Ist September. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 19. New Zealand, No. 194. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, Bth September, 1925. I have the honour to request that I may be advised, for the information of my Ministers, whether it is possible to establish reciprocity in medical registration between the Irish Free State and the Dominion of New Zealand. 2. Ministers state that hitherto graduates of Irish Universities have been registered in New Zealand because of their eligibility for registration in the United Kingdom. Now, however, that the Irish Free State is a separate administration my Government are of the opinion that it is very desirable that reciprocity in this matter should be established between that State and this Dominion. 3. If the medical registration body in the Irish Free State is prepared to grant registration to graduates in medicine of the University of New Zealand by virtue of such graduation and without further examination, the New Zealand Medical Council, which is the registering body in this Dominion, will be glad to reciprocate so far as graduates in medicine of Irish Universities are concerned. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.