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No. 4. New Zealand, No. 60. Sir,-— Government House, Wellington, 26th March, 1925. With reference to your despatch, Dominions No. 597, of the 29th December, 1924, I have the honour to inform you that my Government are pleased to accept the invitation to be represened at the International Prison Congress to be held in London in August next. 2. Ministers state that owing to the death of Mr. Matthews, the late UnderSecretary for Justice, who was. appointed to represent New Zealand at the Congress, it has now been decided that Mr. Edward Page, Stipendiary Magistrate, will attend as this Dominion's representative. 3. With regard to the fifth paragraph of the Commission's letter which accompanied your despatch under reply, the New Zealand Government have decided to adhere to the Permanent International Commission, and this decision was transmitted to the High Commissioner for New Zealand by cable on the 30th October last. 4. Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise's book, " Prison Reform at Home and Abroad," which you forwarded with the above-mentioned despatch, is much appreciated by the Prisons Department. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 5. New Zealand, No. 81. Sir,— Government House, Wellington, 22nd April, 1925. With reference to your despatch, Dominions No. 36, of the 29th January, I have the honour to inform you that my Government, whilst appreciating the invitation to participate in the Twelfth International Congress of Agriculture to be held at Warsaw in June next, regret its inability to be represented. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor- General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 6. New Zealand, No. 82. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 23rd April, 1925. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 20, of the 6th February, forwarding three copies of the report by Mr. H. Munro on the sheep-farming industry of the Falkland Islands. 2. It is very gratifying to my Government to lea,rn that Mr. H. Munro's services were so highly appreciated, and it is hoped that as an outcome of his visit the sheepfarming industry of the Falkland Islands will be established on a sound and enduring basis. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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