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Enclosure. The Time Charters Order, 1919. The: Time Charters Order, 1919, dated llth February, 1919, has been made by the Shipping Controller under Regulation 39bbb of the Defence of the Realm Regulations. The Shipping Controller, in pursuance of the powers conferred on him by Regulation 39bbb of the Defence of the Realm Regulations, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order : — 1. This order may be cited as the Time Charters Order, 1919. 2. (1.) No person being the owner or disponent of any ship registered in the United Kingdom not fitted for the carriage of passengers, or holding a passenger certificate issued by the Board of Trade, shall time-charter that ship at a rate in excess of the rates specified in the schedule to this order without first submitting a true copy of the charter-party to the Shipping Controller and obtaining his approval, thereof; and any charter-party not so approved by the Shipping Controller shall be void : Provided that this article shall not apply to any ship time-chartered for the purpose of trading between the ports and in the waters mentioned in the Limitation of Freights (French and Belgian Ports) Orders, 1918 and 1919. (2.) No person shall pay or receive, or agree to pay or receive, as the case may be, directly or indirectly, or in any manner whatsoever, any freight, hire, or other remuneration under or in respect of any contract or charter-party to which this order applies —viz, charters at rates in excess of the schedule—unless and until the charter-party has been approved by the Shipping Controller. (3.) There shall be included in every time charter to which this order applies a clause to the following effect : " It is agreed that this charter shall be valid only as respects voyages for which licenses are duly granted by the Shipping Controller under Regulation 39dd of the Defence of the Realm Regulations." (4.) This order shall come into force on the llth day of February, 1919. Schedule. s. d. Not exceeding 500 tons gross ... 50 0 ) Per ton „ ross regigt er per month, exclusive Exceeding 500 and not exceeding 750 tons of cost of war-risk insurance. gross ... ... ... ... 42 _B J Exceeding 750 tons gross and not exceeding 1,500 d.w. ... ... ... 31 0 ) Exceeding 1,500 and not exceeding 2,500 Per ton dead-weight per month, exclusive of tons d.w. ... ... ... ... 28 0 cost of war-risk insurance. Exceeding 2,500 tons d.w. ... ... 25 0 j

No. 17. New Zealand, Dominions No. 209. My Lord, — Downing Street, 24th March, 1919. In confirmation of my telegram of the 28th February I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copies of Army Council Instruction No, 41 of 1919, regarding the upper limit of age for attendance at the Army Entrance Examination to be held in June, 1919, for the purpose of gaining admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, or the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, with the object of qualifying for a permanent commission in the Army. I have, &c, MILNER. Governor-General His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C, G.C.M.G, G.B.E, M.V.O, &c.

Enclosure. Army Council Instruction No. 41 op 1919. 41. Army Entrance Examination, June, 1919. Age-limits. 1 With reference to A.C.I. 497 of 1918, it has been decided that the upper limit of age for attendance at the Army Entrance Examination to be held in June 1919, for the purpose of gaining admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, or the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, with the object of qualifying for a permanent commission, shall be nineteen, the only exception will be in the case of a candidate who is serving, or has served satisfactorily in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Regular Army, Special Reserve, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, Militia Territorial Force, Forces of the overseas dominions, or Royal Air lorce, and is recommended by his Commanding Officer as suitable in all respects for appointment to a permanent commission in the Regular Army, in which case the upper age-limit will remain twenty-one. 2 An Army order ariiending the provisional regulations will shortly be issued. By Command of the Army Council, R. L, Meade,