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Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/280
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This record is about the Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments), other... dating from 1914 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands 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 321/280
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914
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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 321/276, CO 321/277, CO 321/278, and CO 321/279. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:
Offices:
- Admiralty (collision, St Lucia; German prisoners, St Lucia; wireless station, St Lucia);
- Crown Agents (St George's harbour, Grenada; pension of G P Y Mascall, St Lucia; Alexander Indemnity Fund, St Vincent; refund of passage money, Grenada, St Vincent; refuse destructor, St Lucia; gift of cocoa, Grenada, Trinidad; pension of R W Heels, Grenada, St Lucia; war gift to Red Cross Society, Grenada; postage stamps - complaint, Grenada; wireless installation, St Lucia);
- Foreign (case of Adams and Sawyer, St Vincent, Bahamas; registration of the Savoia, St Lucia; Miss M M Beausaliel, St Lucia; inspection of French archives, St Lucia; cost of telegram sent to governor, Windward Islands; the Robert Dollar, St Lucia);
- Home (Miss M M Beausaliel, St Lucia; permit for G Graf, St Lucia);
- Medical Adviser (Dr R P Cockin, Grenada; J H Rankin, St Lucia; R S Johnstone, Grenada);
- Board of Trade (reciprocity agreement, Grenada, Canada; the Savoia, St Lucia; the Robert Dollar, St Lucia);
- Treasury (bridging of stream, St Vincent);
- War (oil bunker station, St Lucia; sanitary conditions of War Department property, St Lucia; retention of rank and uniform, St Vincent; gifts of cocoa, Grenada, Trinidad; gift of arrowroot, St Vincent; army allowance - Mrs Proudfoot, St Vincent);
- Irish Office (Major Meldon, Grenada);
- Board of Education (assistant master, Boys' Secondary School, recommends David Evan Davies, Grenada);
- Post (errors in cipher telegrams, Windward Islands);
- Local Government Board (Motor Car Ordinance, St Vincent);
- Colonial (nationality of E D Laborde, St Lucia; repatriation - minutes, Windward Islands; prisoners of war, St Lucia; appointment of administrator, St Lucia);
Individuals:
- M Archer (commissioner, Carriacou, Grenada);
- W H Begot (permission to enlist, Grenada);
- Dr R P Cockin (work in colony, Grenada; resignation, Grenada);
- C J Condell (inspector of schools, Ceylon, St Lucia);
- C de S Dunn (chief of police, St Vincent);
- Duché & Sons (captured German steamer, St Lucia);
- Forbes, Forbes & Co (arrowroot industry, St Vincent);
- Mrs Garraway (her son, Grenada);
- R J Graves (advance of pension, Grenada);
- Dr W A George (appointment, St Vincent);
- G Graf (resignation, etc, St Lucia);
- S C Harland (assistant agricultural superintendent, St Vincent);
- D H Jones (extension of leave, Grenada);
- R S Johnstone (retirement, Grenada);
- S Meldon (Major Meldon, Grenada);
- Hon G Murray (Agricultural Credit Societies, St Vincent);
- J Malcolm (assistance from eruption fund, St Vincent);
- J C Moore (superintendent of agriculture, Grenada);
- Hon C B Murray (gift of arrowroot, St Vincent);
- P A Ongley (offer of services, Grenada);
- Sir J H Sadler (presentation to Lady Sadler, Windward Islands);
- J C Full (medical officer, St Vincent);
- D Young (appointment as Governor of Windward Islands, Windwards, St Lucia, Leeward Islands; salary as acting Governor [missing; dummy sheet]).
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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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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2975745/
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CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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