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Enclosure. (Circular.) Sir, — . Downing Street, 10th November, 1928. I have the honour to refer to Section VI of the Report of the Inter-Imperial Relations Committee of the Imperial Conference, 1926, the text of which is reproduced in the summary of proceedings of the Conference —Cmd. 2768 (vide my circular despatch of the 16th of December, 1926), and to inform you that, in furtherance of the resolution quoted therein as to the system of communication and consultation between conferences and the desirability of securing closer personal touch between this country and the Dominions, Sir William H. Clark, K.C.5.1., C.M.G., late ComptrollerGeneral of the Department of Overseas Trade, has been appointed High Commissioner in Canada for His Majesty's Government in Great Britain. 2. Sir William Clark has already taken up his duties : his address is Wellington Chambers, Ottawa. (Telegraphic address : Highcoma, Ottawa.) I have, &c., L. S. AMERY. The Officer Administering the Government of

No. 6. New Zealand, Dominions Treaty No. 5. Sir, — Downing Street, 2nd January, 1929. With reference to the letter from the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, No. C.L. ] 15, 1928, XI, of the 7th July, 1928, regarding the exchange of certain information relating to drug-smuggling transactions, I have the honour to transmit for the information of His Majesty's Government in New Zealand the accompanying copy of the reply returned to the Secretary-General on behalf of His Majesty's Government in Great Britain. I have, &c., L. S. AMERY. Governor-General His Excellency General Sir C. Fergusson, Bart., LL.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.8., D.5.0., M.Y.0., &c.

Enclosure. F. 6507/3623/87. Sir, — Foreign Office, S.W. 1., 4th December, 1928. In your letter No. C.L. 115, 1928, XI, of 7t.h July, you communicated the text of a resolution adopted by the Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium at its eleventh session, recommending that every Government should, on the application of a responsible government, furnish facsimiles of telegrams sent in connection with a smuggling transaction and the names of and other particulars relating, to the persons sending them ; and you asked whether His Majesty's Government in Great Britain was in a position to carry out this recommendation. 2. I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to inform you in reply that His Majesty's Government will be in a position in proper cases to give effect to the recommendation of the Advisory Committee. Parliament has recognized in the widest manner by section 1, subsection (1), of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1923, the principle of making available any documents which are needed for suppressing the illicit traffic in drugs. That provision reads as follows : — "If a Justice of the Peace ... is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that . . . any document directly or indirectly relating to or connected with any transaction or dealing which was, or any intended transaction or dealing which would if carried out be an offence against this Act, or in the ca-se of a transaction or dealing carried out or intended to be carried out in any place outside Great Britain, an offence against the provisions of any corresponding law in force in that place, is in the possession or under the control of any person in any premises, he may grant a search warrant authorizing any constable named in the warrant, at any time or times within one month from the date of the warrant, to enter, if need be by force, the premises named in the warrant, and to search the premises and any persons found therein, and, if there is reasonable ground for suspecting that . . . any document which may be so found is such a document as aforesaid, to seize and detain . . . that document ..." I am, &c., F. Ashton Gwatkin. The Secretary-General, League of Nations, Geneva.

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