Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other...

CO 321/270

1912

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 321/264, CO 321/265, CO 321/266, CO 321/267, CO 321/268, and CO 321/269. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (vacancy for Sergeant Major of Police, St Lucia);
• Crown Agents (light at Cape Moule à Chique, St Lucia; travelling expenses of Captain Leland, Windward Islands; steward, lunatic asylum, St Lucia; lighting of Castries harbour, St Lucia; maxim gun, Grenada; improvement of St George's harbour, Grenada; oil bunker station, St Lucia; errors in revised edition of laws, Grenada);
• Foreign Office (estates of West Indian 'natives' dying in Brazil and repatriation of distressed West Indians, Grenada);
• India Office (ankylostomiasis, Grenada; group of shipwrecked Sikhs, St Lucia, Trinidad, British Guiana);
• Medical Adviser (malaria - ankylostomiasis, Grenada);
• Board of Trade (registration of the Savoia, St Lucia; distressed seaman/stowaway, Lionel Scott, St Lucia; Shipping Ordinance, Grenada; Passenger Boats (Life Saving) Ordinance, St Vincent; rules under Customs Ordinance, 1900, St Vincent);
• Treasury (purchase of Belair Estate, St Vincent; retirement of F Gray, St Lucia);
• War Office (local rank of major, St Lucia; Sergeant Major of Police, Grenada; staff officer, Windward Islands);
• British Museum of Natural History (bird protection, St Lucia);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (post of Sergeant Major of Police, St Vincent, St Lucia; expenses and allowances of non-commissioned officers under instruction, Grenada);
• British Cotton Growing Association (land settlement, St Vincent);
• York Charity Organisation Society (case of Catherine Pryme, Grenada);
• Post Office (mail landed at Barbados, St Lucia);
• Kew Gardens (F Birkenshaw, St Vincent);
• Colonial Bank (advances to agricultural credit societies, St Vincent; health conditions at West Indian ports, Windward Islands);
• Public Trustee (compassionate grant to Mrs Gray, St Lucia);
• Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine (rat plague, Windward Islands);
• Colonial Office (list of missing papers, 1902, Grenada);

Individuals:

• C J Arthur (transfer to West African Medical Service, St Vincent);
• Ralph St John Brook (rat campaign, Windward Islands and Leeward Islands);
• E J Cameron (protection of birds, St Lucia; lighting at Castries harbour, St Lucia);
• Frank H Coller (appointment as chief justice, St Lucia);
• R P Cockin (extension of leave, Grenada);
• F Gray (house allowance, St Lucia);
• Captain G J L Golding (Chief of Police and Inspector of Prisons, St Lucia);
• R J Graves (advance of pension, Grenada);
• H Hampton (further employment, St Lucia);
• Captain E F S Henderson (departure, Windward Islands);
• Captain C W Hill (missing: 'dummy' sheet only; appointment as ADC);
• D S Imbert (land settlement, St Lucia);
• Dr G B Mason (St Vincent: private practice while on leave; extension of leave and transfer; resignation; further employment);
• M A Murphy (lighting of Castries harbour, St Lucia);
• Sir Colin Macrae (transfer for Whitfield Smith, Grenada, Leeward Islands);
• Dr L Nicholls (promotion, St Lucia; rat campaign, Windward Islands);
• Miss Pryme (return to colony, Grenada);
• R B Roden (St Vincent: chief justice; departure for St Vincent; delay in departure);
• Professor Simpson (plague, Grenada, Trinidad);
• A Sheard (death of Frank Gray, St Lucia);
• Sir J H Sadler (loans for housing agricultural labourers, St Vincent; new assistant surgeon, Grenada);
• Dr J Tudor (revised edition of laws, Grenada);
• H Wilkins (Sergeant Major of Police, Grenada).

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