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Coombes, Working-men's Home, Auckland, in connection with the disaster which has befallen Captain Scott and his comrades in the recent Antarctic Expedition. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 57. New Zealand, No. 27. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 21st February, 1913. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 7, of the 3rd January, relative to the question of preventing the importation into the British oversea dominions, colonies, and protectorates of foreign-made gold and silver articles bearing fraudulent imitations of British assay marks. 2. With regard to the request contained in the second paragraph of your despatch, I am advised by my Ministers that instructions will be issued to all ports of entry in. New Zealand to prohibit the importation of goods bearing fraudulent imitation of British assay marks, such being a false trade description within the meaning of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1908. Ministers would be obliged if at least one dozen further copies of the particulars of marks used by the London Goldsmiths' Company and the Assay Offices at Birmingham, Chester, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Sheffield could be furnished, as the number of copies enclosed in your despatch is not sufficient to go round. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 58. New Zealand, No. 34. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, sth March, 1913. With reference to your despatch, No. 381, of the 19th December, conveying a copy of a Note from the French Ambassador inviting my Government to be represented at the International Congress of Physical Education to be held in Paris in March, of this year, I have the honour to inform you, by request of my Prime Minister, that the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London has been requested to represent the Dominion at the Congress, and to forward in due course the publications in connection therewith. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P.C., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

No. 59. New Zealand, No. 39. Sir, — Government House, Wellington, 18th March, 1913. I have the honour to transmit to. you the accompanying copy of a communication which I have received from my Prime Minister, asking me to acquaint you that Mr. J. G. H. Moore, of Buenos Aires, has been appointed honorary New Zealand Government Representative in Argentina, and that it is considered desirable that the British Minister in that country should be notified of the appointment, and requested to afford Mr. Moore assistance in carrying out his duties. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, P. 0., &c, Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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