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Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/275
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This record is about the Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other... dating from 1913 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 321/275
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Date (When the record was created)
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1913
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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 321/271, CO 321/272, CO 321/273, and CO 321/274. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
Offices:
- Crown Agents (rat campaign, Windward Islands; Dennery water supply, St Lucia; purchase of Belair Estate, St Vincent; note issue security of Royal Bank of Canada, Grenada; compensation - Miss Webster, St Vincent; motor mail and passenger service, St Vincent; oil expressing plant, St Vincent);
- Foreign Office (Senor L Terrero, Grenada, Canada; case of the Lyric, Grenada; murder of Fulgence Stanislaus at Panama, St Lucia; case of Margaret Marie Beausoleil, St Lucia; registration of the Savoia, St Lucia);
- Home Office (Marguerite Marie Beausoleie, St Lucia);
- Medical Adviser (Charles Schwartz, Grenada);
- Board of Trade (registration of the Savoia, St Lucia; proceeds from sale of wreck, schooner Hettie P, St Lucia);
- Treasury (farthing, Grenada);
- War Office (oil banker station, St Lucia; deductions for clothing, Grenada; re-armament, Windward Islands);
- Colonial Nursing Association (nurse matron, St Lucia, St Vincent);
- Royal Bank of Canada (new branch at St George's, Grenada);
- Post (complaint against postmaster, Grenada; errors in cypher telegram, Windward Islands);
- Board of Agriculture (Anthrax Ordinance, St Vincent);
Individuals:
- W R Barlow (medical officer, St Vincent);
- W H C Calthrop (harbourmastership, St Lucia);
- Dr H B Dodd (transfer, St Vincent);
- M Kerr (re-employment, St Lucia);
- Dr G B Mason (St Vincent: looking for appointment; return to colony);
- Hon C G Murray (public works loan, St Vincent);
- J A Meldon (chief of police, St Vincent);
- J H Murley (balance of salary, Grenada);
- Sir C G Macrae (Mr Whitfield Smith, Grenada);
- Dr L Nicholls (refers to East African appointment, St Lucia);
- Otto Sverdrup (whaling concession, Grenada);
- Sir J H Sadler (purchase of St Cyr Estate, Windward Islands);
- C Schwartz (assistant master, Boys' Secondary School, Grenada);
- D Young (appointment as administrator, St Lucia).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2975740/
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CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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