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'This extract from a memorandum written six years ago would appear to represent correctly the attitude of Your Excellency's Government at the present time. F. W. Borden, Minister of Militia and Defence. To His Excellency the Governor-General in Council. k 7698/1909. Telegram.—The Governor-General of Australia to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. (Received, Colonial Office, 11.15 a.m., 3rd March, 1909.) Commonwealth of. Australia concur in general principles Imperial General Staff set out in memorandum of 7th December, 1908, but desire to emphasize fact that full local control retained. Despatch follows by mail. Dudley.

No. 5. New Zealand, No. 73. My Lord, — Downing Street, Ist April, 1909. In continuation of my despatch No. 48, of the 27th February, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Ministers, copies of minutes by the Hoard of Trade appointing a committee to examine the various points in which the revised International Copywright Convention signed at Berlin on the 13th November, 1908, is not in accordance with the law of the United Kingdom. I have, &c, CREWE. Governor, the Right Hon. Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., X.C.V.0., &c.

Enclosures. N.Z. 73. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, this 9th day of March, 1909. Present: The Right Honourable Winston S. Churchill, M.P. Tin: Board of Trade are pleased to appoint the following gentlemen, viz., — The Righi Honourable Lord Gorell (Chairman), Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, 0.M., Mr. William Joynson Hicks, .M.1 , .. Mr. George Ranken Askwith, K.C., Mr. William Algernon Law, C.8., Mr. 11. Granville Barker, Mr. Frederick Macmillan, Mr. Charles W. Bowerman, M.P., Mr. Thomas Power O'Connor, M.P., Mr. Henry li. Clayton, Professor Walter Raleigh, Mr. 11<111 y .1. C. Cust. Mr. Thomas Edward Scrutton, K.C., Mr. Edward Cutlet, K.C., Mr. Edmund Trevor L. Williams, — to be a committee to examine the various points in which the revised International Copyright Convention signed at Berlin on the 13th November, 1908, is nol in accordance with the law of the United Kingdom, including those points which are expressly I H to the internal legislation of each country, and to consider in each case whether that law should be altered so as to enable His Majesty's Government to give effect to the revised Convention. The Board of Trade are also pleased to appoint Mr. Thomas W. Phillips to be Secretary to the said committee. Winston S. Churchill. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, this I 7i h day of March, 1909. Present: Read minute, dated the 9th March. 1909, appointing a committee to examine and consider certain questions connected with the law of copyright of the United Kingdom. The Board oi* Trade are pleased to appoini Mr, William Boosey to be an additional member oi , the said committee, Winston S, Churchill,