Letters from various government offices (departments), other organisations 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 (St Lucia: defence of colony; wireless station; dependants of people lost in HMS Good Hope - includes list of British West Indians who lost their lives in Good Hope and have left dependents; examination steamer Tow or Vigilant; cost of erecting four French guns);
• Crown Agents (gifts to National Relief Fund and Red Cross Society, Grenada; wireless station, St Lucia; note issue of Royal Bank of Canada, Grenada; financial position, St Lucia, St Vincent; debts of staff Captain Dunn, St Vincent; telegraphic publications, St Lucia);
• Council Office (St Lucia: appeals in Admiralty causes; Colonial Court of Admiralty Ordinance Amendment);
• Foreign Office (Adams and Sawyer case, St Vincent, Bahamas; fugitive offender, Beltran de la Muerte, St Lucia);
• Medical Adviser (S C Harland, St Vincent; F H Parker, Grenada);
• Treasury (Second Clerk, Governor's office);
• War Office (defence of the colony, St Lucia; oil bunker station, St Lucia; R G Plissoneau, St Lucia; power to convene courts martial, St Lucia; Dr W S Mitchell, Grenada; staff officer);
• Colonial Office (administrators of St Lucia and St Vincent);
• General Post Office (corrupt cypher telegram; issue of provisional postage stamp, St Vincent);
• Public Record Office (inspection of records, St Vincent);
• British Museum [Natural History] (survey of Soufriére Crater, St Vincent);
• War Trade Dept (arrowroot, St Vincent);
• Local Government Board (Public Health Ordinance, St Vincent);
• International Health Commission (pit and pan latrines, Grenada; leave to medical officers engaged in ankylostomiasis campaign, Grenada);
• Custom House (Excise Ordinance, Grenada);

Individuals:

• M L G Cocks (enlistment, Grenada):
• Dr G M Chambers (vacancy in Colonial Medical Service, St Lucia);
• C de S Dunn (his debts, St Vincent; deductions from his pay, St Vincent);
• Lieutenant J Gaffney (salary, St Vincent);
• Dr W A George (transfer to West African Medical Service, St Vincent; return to colony, St Vincent; support for Mrs George, St Vincent);
• M J Gobin (land grant, missing, dummy sheet);
• Sir R S Johnstone (pension, Grenada);
• F H Parker (his case, Grenada);
• A C Roessler (surcharged stamps, St Vincent);
• J W Scott Company (surcharged stamps, St Vincent);
• F H Watkins (retirement, Grenada; further employment in West Indies, Grenada; administratorship, St Kitts-Nevis; his pension, Grenada);
• Way & Co (claim against Captain C de S Dunn, St Vincent);
• D Young (salary as Acting Governor)

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