Despatches from T E Fell, colonial secretary and acting governor of Barbados (CO...

Despatches from T E Fell, colonial secretary and acting governor of Barbados (CO 28/294/1-19) and Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, governor (CO 28/294/20-41), in continuation of CO 28/293, as well as letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals during 1918. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices (much of which relates to the despatches sent from the governor and acting governor in CO 28/293) is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments):

• Crown Agents (C H Clarke's scholarship);
• Foreign Office (enemy correspondence from Brazil and Argentina, transfer of schooner Lilian Blauwelt to French flag, G L Livingstone former US consul at Swansea, repatriation of Mrs Aleatha Thompson and Mrs Selina M Sealy, censorship of mails for South America, diversion of ships to St Thomas for coaling, status of Finnish vessels flying Russian flag);
• Medical advisers (permission for Miss Thorne to proceed to Barbados);
• Board of Trade (transfer of British vessels to foreign flags, Railway Act 1917, G A Sealey, importation of goods of German origin);
• Treasury (interest of Miss Constance Louise Ashby and Mrs Watts in Alexander Ashby's bequest);
• War Office (Alexander Ashby's bequest, recognition of military services, control of mails for Central and South America, Sea Island cotton).

• Prisoners of War Department (inspection of prison camps, transmission of money to Germany by internee Joseph Cerny, transfer of prisoners from Barbados to Canada);
• General Post Office (war tax on letters);
• Plymouth Incorporation of Guardians (distressed seaman Allan Greenidge-reports of his unfitness for repatriation and later death);
• Coal Exports Committee (gas coal for Barbados);
• West India Committee (repatriation of school girls stranded in UK);
• Colonial Office (alleged racism suffered by Private A W Stoute, appointment of Mr Roebuck as assistant superintendent of agriculture, repatriation of Walter Donovan formerly interned in Germany);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (vacant post of assistant superintendent of agriculture, infected cotton seed);
• Barbados Gas Company (coal for gas manufacture);
• HM Petroleum Executive (oil fuel depot);
• Ministry of Pensions (grant of pension to Mrs Goodridge, stopping of G Knight's pension);
• Ministry of Shipping (detention in Barbados of infected cargo from Brazil bound for UK);
• Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (detention in Barbados of infected cargo from Brazil bound for UK);
• West Indian Contingent Committee (demobilisation of men sent by the Barbados Citizens' Contingent Committee and the Trinidad Merchants' and Planters' Contingent Committee [with printed lists of men and units in which serving]).

• Sergeant F A B Clairmonte (application for an appointment in East Africa);
• E L Delamere (application for transfer from Army Ordnance Department to Cox & Company, army agents);
• Lieutenant Colonel F G W Deane (termination of appointment as visiting surgeon, General Hospital);
• Reuben Holder (petition for appointment of commissioners to report on the state of the condition of the British West Indian colonies and their 'native people');
• E C Jackman (employment in war work);
• G Knight (permission to draw lump sum from pension);
• Herbert Lewis (further on his case and statement concerning his health);
• Lieutenant Colonel C R M O'Brien (application for exemption from customs duties of goods for personal use);
• L G Perkins (renewal of application for transfer to West Africa);
• G A Sealey (application for employment-with Colonial Office note 'this illustrates the difficulty we now experience in finding jobs for unemployed West Indian seaman');
• Major W H G Thorne (request for half salary to be discontinued).

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