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Despatches from Governor Sir James Willcocks (items 1-60), Officer Administering...
Catalogue reference: CO 37/268
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This record is about the Despatches from Governor Sir James Willcocks (items 1-60), Officer Administering... dating from 1922 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 37/268
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1922
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Description (What the record is about)
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Despatches from Governor Sir James Willcocks (items 1-60), Officer Administering the Government Gerald E Badcock (items 61-81), and Governor Sir Joseph John Asser (items 82-105), together with letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows:
Offices:
- Admiralty (wireless station, loan of dredger);
- Foreign Office (American motorboat Fidus, landing pass for immigrants, seizure of British schooner Marion Mosher);
- Medical Advisers (Miss T G Hogg's physical fitness for service);
- Board of Trade (Bermuda Navigation Company Act 1920, seizure of the Fidus);
- War Office (selection of Sir J J Asser as governor, retirement of Sir J Willcocks);
- General Post Office (wireless licences for vessels transferred, wireless call licences for certain ships, naval wireless telegraph station, transfer of wireless telegraph station to Direct West India Cable Company);
- Colonial Office (governor's salary);
- Commissioner of Police (reports inability to make enquiries regarding the wife of Robert James Henderson);
- Overseas Nursing Association (applications from nurses for position at the general hospital including: Miss M M Francis, Miss T G Hogg, Miss A Banham, and Miss R E Y Yoemans; salaries of nurse positions);
- Petroleum Department (oil fuel for ships by West India Oil Company);
- Imperial Bureau of Mycology (appointment of a plant pathologist);
- Ministry of Pensions (medical treatment of pensioners, medical treatment of R A Wellman former gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery Bermuda Contingent);
- Ministry of Health (house accommodation for immigrant labourers);
- Cox & Company (salary of Governor Sir J J Asser).
Individuals:
- Sir James Willcocks (salary during leave)
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2750107/
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