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Letters from various government offices (departments) and despatches from the administrator....
Catalogue reference: CO 152/343
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This record is about the Letters from various government offices (departments) and despatches from the administrator.... dating from 1914 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Leeward Islands, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 152/343
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letters from various government offices (departments) and despatches from the administrator. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices is not. Offices include:
- Admiralty (Dominica - gift to flying corps, Antigua - gift of £2500);
- Crown Agents (Dominica - road scheme, Leewards - Redonda license, Antigua - students at Mico College, Jamaica, Montserrat - telephone service, Montserrat - gift of guava jelly, St Kitts - gift to British Red Cross Society, St Kitts - Belgian Relief Fund, Leewards - rent of Redonda);
- Council (Leewards - revision of reserved bill to promote Federal Acts);
- Foreign (Dominica - Belgian Relief Fund, St Kitts - remittance for the Misses Todd).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2732824/
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CO 152
Colonial Office and predecessors: Leeward Islands, Original Correspondence
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