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and enjoined in the third clause of the Instructions under the Royal Sign-manual and Signet to the Governor-General thereunder contained as follows : — " The Governor-General may, whenever he thinks fit, require any person in the Public Service to take the Oath of Allegiance, together with such other oath or oaths as may from time to time be prescribed by any law in force in the Dominion. The Governor-General is to administer such oaths or cause them to be administered by some public officer of the Dominion." (11) Solicitors of the Supreme Court. —Section 18 of the Law Practitioners Act, 1908, is as follows " Every person before he is admitted and enrolled as a solicitor shall take the oath of allegiance, and the oath following : — "I, — -, do swear that I will truly and honestly demean myself in the practice of a solicitor according to the best of my knowledge and ability." (12) Teachers. —Section 11, subsection (1), of the Education Amendment Act, 1921, reads:— " On and after the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twentytwo, no person shall be employed or shall continue to be employed, or shall act as a teacher in any public school, secondary school, technical school, endowed school, Native school, or private school unless, in the case of a British subject, he has since the passing of this Act made and subscribed the Oath of Allegiance, and, in any other case, he has since the passing of this Act made and subscribed in the prescribed form an oath that he will not, directly or indirectly, use words or be concerned in any act which would be disloyal to His Majesty if such words were spoken or written or such act was committed by a subject of His Majesty." Two copies of the Promissory Oaths Act, 1908, are enclosed. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 29. New Zealand, No. 279. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 29th October, 1928. With reference to your despatch, Dominions No. 345, of the 14th July, regarding the International Oceanographic Conference to be held at Seville in May, 1929, I have the honour to inform you that, so far as this Dominion is concerned, my Ministers state that there does not appear to be any necessity for special representation, but it would be appreciated if His Majesty's Government in Great Britain would be good enough to forward to New Zealand, after the Conference is held, a copy of any publication issued dealing with the proceedings. I have, &c., CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. The Right Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

No. 30. New Zealand, No. 289. Sir, —- Government House, Wellington, 3rd November, 1928. I have tlie honour to refer to your despatch, Dominions No. 423, of the 27th August, intimating that the Report of the Committee of Civil Research Sub-Committee on the British Pharmacopoeia has now been accepted by the General Medical Council, and extending an invitation to Dominion Governments