Letters from 'miscellaneous offices' (Government departments and other organisations)...

CO 137/765

1922 May - Dec.

Letters from 'miscellaneous offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Asiatic Petroleum Company (oil fuel installation);
• Board of Education (English Teachers certification exam);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (death of Charles Orr);
• Bank of England (transfer of investments to Administrator General);
• Colonial Office (Parochial Board, constitutional questions, super tax, financial policy, Jamaica Law Society, shipping and freight rates, improvement of Falmouth Harbour, law settlement, maintenance of roads and railways, education, appointment of Lieutenant William V Beaumont, Deputy Director of Public Works, resident magistrate, transfer of naval wireless station, appointment of W Leigh Barnett as Deputy Island Chemist, appointment of W H F Sedley as Depot Inspector, Admiralty wireless telegraph station);
• Register Office, Southampton (Charles Orr);
• Chief Constable, Southampton (Charles Orr);
• Governor Leslie Probyn (emigrant Chinese);
• Law Society (final and intermediate exam);
• General Post Office (broadcast station, telegraph system for Barbados and British Honduras, telegraph system for Turks and Caicos Islands);
• Royal Botanic Gardens (sericulture);
• Royal Sanitary Institute (Chief Sanitary Medical Officer);
• Department of Overseas Trade (supply of dynamite);
• Imperial War Graves Commission (Jamaican war contingent);
• Cement Marketing Company (testing of cement);
• British Medical Association (pension fund, condition of medical service);
• London School of Tropical Medicine (Dr L M Moody, Government bacteriologist);
• Ministry of Agriculture (calf diphtheria, foot and mouth disease, importation of livestock into UK, prohibition of landing animals from Jamaica, importation of hides);
• Federation of British Industries (British preferential tariffs);
• Guests Trust Limited (public utilities);
• Board of Customs and Excise (shipments of spirits);
• West Indian Committee (repatriation of David Russell, Jamaican honey, repatriation of Oliver Goldsmith);
• Poplar Board of Guardians (repatriation of David Russell and family);
• Ministry of Health (outbreak of 'kaffir cowpox');
• Direct West India Cable Company (naval wireless station);
• Inland Revenue (super tax);
• Imperial Institute (sericulture);
• Clerical, Medical and Life Assurance Society (registration of births);
• International Woman Suffrage Alliance (enfranchisement of women);
• Government Actuary Department (pension scheme);
• Ministry of Pensions (pension of Captain Thomas Francis Shackleton);
• Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (Detective Inspector O'Hanlon);
• City of Westminster Union (repatriation of William John Solomon).

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International

Mutual societies

Railways

Trade and commerce

Radio and television

Caribbean

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Construction industries

Navy

Poverty

Votes for women

Americas

Communications

Education

Farming

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Sex and gender