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No. 2. Annual Contributions from Imperial, Dominion, and Colonial Governments to the Imperial Bureau op Entomology as at Ist April, 1926. £ £ Imperial Government .. .. .. 1,000 Nyasaland .. .. .. .. 250 Canada .. .. .. .. 1,000 Northern Rhodesia .. .. .. 150 Commonwealth of Australia .. .. 400 Mauritius .. .. .. .. 300 Australian States .. .. .. 600 Seychelles .. .. .. 50 New Zealand .. .. .. 400 Ceylon .. .. .. .. 500 Union of South Africa .. .. 700 Federated Malay States .. .. 750 Irish Free State .. .. .. 50 Hong Kong .. .. .. .. 200 Newfoundland .. .. .. 50 Straits Settlement .. .. .. 250 India .. .. .. .. 500 British North Borneo Company .. 50 Southern Rhodesia .. .. .. 300 Jamaica .. .. .. .. 100 Malta .. .. .. .. 50 British Guiana .. .. .. 150 Basutoland .. .. .. .. 25 Trinidad .. .. .. .. 150 Nigeria .. .. .. .. 1,000 Windward Islands .. .. ..60 Gold Coast .. .. .. .. 700 Leeward Islands .. .. 40 Sierra Leone .. .. .. .. 200 Barbados .. .. .. 50 Gambia .. .. .. .. 100 British Honduras .. .. 40 Sudan .. .. .. .. 300 Fiji .. .. .. .. 200 Uganda .. .. .. .. 300 Cyprus .. .. .. .. 200 Kenya .. .. .. .. 300 Palestine .. .. .. 75 Tanganyika Territory .. .. .. 300 Bermuda .. .. .. 50 Zanzibar .. .. .. .. 150 Bahamas .. .. .. 50 In addition to these contributions, the Government of Iraq pays to the Bureau for services rendered, more particularly in connection with identification-work, the sum of Rs. 1,000 annually.

No. 39. New Zealand, No. 192. Sir, — Downing Street, 4th September, 1926. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's despatch No. 125, of the 25th June, and to request you to inform your Ministers that the United States Embassy in London have been informed that while the Government of New Zealand appreciate the invitation extended to them by the president of the National Tuberculosis Association of the United States to participate in bhe meeting of the International Union against Tuberculosis, to be held in Washington in September and October next, they regret that it will not be possible to send a delegate from the Dominion. 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.V.0., &c.

No. 40. New Zealand, Dominions No. 469. Sir, — Downing Street, 13th October, 1926. With reference to the late Viscount Milner's telegram of the 3rd August, 1920, and previous correspondence on the subject of the grant of postal concessions to members of His Majesty's Forces on active service during the Great War, I have the honour to request Your Excellency to inform your Ministers that His Majesty's Government have had under consideration the question of the carriage of correspondence and parcels emanating from British troops on active service, and have decided that a paragraph to the following effect should be included in that section of the new edition of Field Service Regulations, Volume 1, which deals with the postal service " Letters, not exceeding 4 oz. in weight, and postcards emanating from the troops, from foreign attaches, and from civilians employed by or accompanying

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