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No. 26. New Zealand, No. 272. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 16th December, 1925. 1 have the honour to inform you that I referred, for the consideration of my Ministers, your despatch, Dominions No. 57, of the 13th February, and its enclosures, relating to the proceedings of the Imperial Economic Conference on the subject of Imperial preference in public contracts. 2. The Prime Minister has now advised me that the principle enunciated in the resolution passed by the Imperial Economic Conference in 1923 is operative as far as New Zealand is concerned, and that effective preference is being given in public contracts to goods made and materials produced within the Empire. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

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