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Despatches from Governor Sir James Willcocks and letters from 'offices' (Government...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/267
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This record is about the Despatches from Governor Sir James Willcocks and letters from 'offices' (Government... dating from 1921 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 37/267
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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Despatches from Governor Sir James Willcocks and letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Bermuda. Despatches are described at item level; letters from offices and individuals are not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows:
Offices:
- Admiralty (Land Act 1920, C R Glaser's claim, 'Americanisation' of Bermuda, HMS Charybdis, proposed wireless service, salaries revision);
- Crown Agents (payments for stores, appointment of a colonial surveyor, non-receipt of postage stamps, nurses for general hospital);
- Foreign Office (US import duty on potatoes, US tariff legislation, towage legislation);
- Home Office (Public Prosecutions Act 1921);
- Board of Trade (Bermuda and West Indies Steamship Company, Supreme Court Act 1920, towage legislation, coasting trade);
- Treasury (export of gold coin);
- War Office (War Department Land Act 1920, administration of the government during the governor's absence);
- Colonial Office (volunteer air force, passage for G Fisher and family);
- Overseas Nursing Association (recommends nurses for the general hospital);
- Societe Belge d'Etudes et d'Expansion (maps of Bermuda and the Falklands);
- General Post Office (wireless press service to Bermuda).
Individuals:
- A E Bourne (complaint regarding the Tuckers Town development);
- Drake Son and Parton (trust and finance corporation);
- E Harvey (nurses for general hospital);
- P N H Jones (letters in support of his colonial surveyor application);
- W E F Jackson (application for promotion, extension of leave);
- H M M Moore (appointment of colonial secretary);
- G H Powell (mail passenger service);
- Sir C Rees-Davies (leave extension, pay during leave, chief justiceship of Jamaica, travelling expenses of officers going on leave)
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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/C2750106/
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Colonial Office and predecessors: Bermuda, Original Correspondence
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