Despatches from James Willcocks, governor of Bermuda (September to December 1920)...

Despatches from James Willcocks, governor of Bermuda (September to December 1920) together with letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Bermuda sent during the year. Despatches are described at item level; letters from offices and individuals are not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (press reports on movements of ships, Bermuda and West Atlantic Aviation Company, direct steamship service, volunteer air force);
• Crown Agents (commemorative stamps [2 items], appointment of secretary to Bermuda hospital);
• Foreign Office (detention of crew of SS Katonah, operations of US tug in Bermuda waters, US 'Around the World' freight service);
• Home Office (naturalisation of E B Gray);
• Board of Trade (operations of US tug, Immigration Act 1920);
• Treasury (Bermuda contingents pension arrangements);
• War Office (Sir J Willcocks increase of salary, salaries of War Department employees, Bermuda contingent gratuities, visit of the Prince of Wales, war gratuity for volunteers, transfer of prisoners of war to Canada);
• Halifax & Bermuda Cable Co and The Direct West India Cable Company (cable messages via Bermuda);
• Ministry of Pensions (payment of pensions to Mrs Kyme and Mrs Turner);
• General Post Office (tax on postal parcels, Fort Victoria & Fort Hamilton, Halifax Bermuda Cable Company's cable landing licence, title 'Royal Mail Steamers');
• Air Ministry (establishment of an air service);
• King's Private Secretary (tercentenary celebrations);
• Bermuda & West Atlantic Aviation Company (aviation concession);
• Ministry of Shipping (operations of US ocean-going tug);
• General Federation of Trade Unions (movements in Bermuda, labour situation, wage rates in Trinidad);
• New Scotland Yard (vacancies in Police Force);
• Colonial Office (wireless service between Barrington Passage and Bermuda, revised edition of laws);
• British Museum, Natural History (aircraft for whaling purposes);
• Ministry of Labour (openings for British labourers).

Individuals:

• A E Bourne, merchant (complaint concerning the Tucker's Town development);
• Oscar Ems (complaint against the Bermuda government);
• Furness Withy & Company (mail service between the US and Bermuda);
• A V Roe & Company Ltd (air service);
• J Rippon (wireless service between Barrington passage and Bermuda);
• R W Willcocks (post of colonial surveyor);
• Sir James Willcocks (suitability of Portuguese and Maltese immigrants)

Topics

Shipping

Internment

International

Labour

Army

Taxation

Migration

Radio and television

Caribbean

Air Force

Pay and pensions

Policing

Museums and galleries

Nationality

Navy

Fishing

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns