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Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/263
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This record is about the Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other... dating from 1911 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 321/263
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Date (When the record was created)
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1911
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Description (What the record is about)
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Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/256, CO 321/257, CO 321/258, CO 321/259, CO 321/260, CO 321/261 and CO 321/262. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
Offices:
- Crown Agents (pension of E W Begrie, Grenada; order for coronation flags, St Vincent; drainage of Queen's Park, Grenada; leave salary of W R Bertrand, Grenada; new issue of postage stamps, St Lucia; revised edition of laws, Grenada; nurse matron, Grenada; classification of imported oils, Grenada; new edition of laws, Grenada);
- Foreign Office (antidote to snake bite, St Lucia; complaint of Thomas Kydd and Joseph Ryan, St Vincent; alleged discovery of minerals in Panama, St Vincent);
- Home Office (regulation of cinematograph exhibition, Grenada);
- Medical Adviser (yaws, St Vincent; anthrax, St Vincent; F Gray, St Lucia):
- House of Commons (riots of 1907, St Lucia);
- Board of Trade (trials for crimes on high seas, St Lucia; registration of the Savoia, St Lucia);
- Treasury (salaries of governor's staff, Windward Islands; disposal of certain land, St Vincent; pension of F Gray, St Lucia; damage from floods, St Vincent);
- Lunacy Commission (pension and case of E W Begrie, Grenada);
- Local Government Board (public health ordinance, Grenada);
- Inland Revenue (income tax on Mr James' annuity, St Vincent, General);
- Colonial Nursing Association (compensation for Miss Webster; nurse matron, recommends Janet Smart Gardner, St Vincent);
- Queen's Private Secretary (coronation gifts, St Vincent, Union of South Africa);
- Customs Office (liquor license (amending) ordinance, Grenada);
- Milne John (standard time, Grenada);
- Royal Irish Constabulary (Sergeant Major of Police);
- Colonial (revised edition of laws, Windward Islands, Grenada);
Individuals:
- G F Branch (extension of leave, Grenada);
- Dr H L Clare (yaws investigation, St Vincent, Trinidad);
- Mrs F V Fyfe (grant from Royal Bounty, Grenada);
- F Gray (St Lucia: retirement; pension);
- R S Johnstone (chief justiceship, Grenada, Leeward Islands);
- T Kydd (St Vincent: British subjects in Panama; complaint; mineral deposits in Panama);
- E D Laborde (St Lucia: appointment as treasurer; extension of leave);
- C A Legge (resignation, Grenada);
- C G Murray (St Vincent: land settlement; position of S B Isaacs);
- J Sadler-Hayes (telegram to Sir J H Sadler, Windward Islands);
- Mrs Sheriff (presentation to the Queen, St Lucia);
- Sir J H Sadler (gratuity to J Batson, St Lucia; Medical Department, St Lucia; Victoria Hospital Enquiry, St Lucia; pensions for medical officers, St Lucia, St Vincent; attorney general of St Vincent, Grenada, St Vincent);
- H Smallwood (acceptance of gift, St Lucia, East Africa Protectorate);
- H A Touche (promotion for Mr Condell, St Lucia);
- Mrs Whiteman (Dr W A D Whiteman, Grenada).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2975728/
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CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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