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

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 321/303, CO 321/304, CO 321/305, and CO 321/306. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (St Lucia: Captain George P Y Mascall, RM; wireless station, transfer to Admiralty; cost of L R Watts' passage to England; route giving and reporting duties; war services of L E Lawrence);
• Crown Agents (overpayment of colonial allowance of Major C de S Dunn, St Vincent; sale of alcohol washed ashore, St Vincent; expenses on account of route-giving officer, St Lucia; E W Begrie - application for increase of pension, Grenada; road and land settlement account, St Vincent; stenographer, Grenada);
• Foreign Office (Roman Catholic Church local administration, Windward Islands; schooner Clara Schwalbe, St Lucia; J Haynes's compensation claim, St Vincent);
• Home Office (Ordinance No 15 of 1919, cinematograph, St Vincent);
• Medical Advisers (H Almond, St Vincent; Dr R D O'Neale, Grenada);
• Board of Trade (place of discharge of colonial seamen, St Lucia; bunker coal price agreement between coaling companies; bunker coal prices at Barbados, etc, Grenada; repeal of Tonnage Dues Ordinance, St Vincent);
• Treasury (sale of drums of alcohol washed ashore, St Vincent);
• War Office (peace honours gazette, Grenada; Lieutenant Colonel Davidson-Houston - expenses incurred and cost of passage, St Lucia; Surgeon Captain J McDowall, Grenada; Captain D Hedog Jones, Grenada; huts erected as quarters for gun crews, St Vincent; Sergeant Major Brown, St Lucia; wireless station transfer to Admiralty, St Lucia);
• Ministry of Pensions (pension to father of late Private Andrew Prospere, St Lucia);
• National Union of Teachers (conditions of teachers' services in Grenada);
• International Health Board, NY (report on hookworm disease relief and control, St Vincent);
• General Post Office (issue of Victory stamp, Grenada; war savings certificates held by members of British West Indies Regiment; interruption of cables between Jamaica and Costa Rica, Grenada; penny postage between Windwards and French West Indies and Guiana, St Lucia);
• Kew Gardens (assistant superintendent of agriculture, Grenada);
• Usines & Estates Company Ltd (income tax, appeal against, St Lucia);
• Metropolitan Police (appointment of sergeant major of Police, St Vincent);
• Ministry of Shipping (bunker coal, St Lucia);
• Ministry of Food (Mr Coller - employment with, St Lucia);
• Commissioner of Police (sergeant major of Police Force, St Vincent);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (Grenada and St Lucia coastal steamship service, Windward Islands);
• West Indian Contingent Committee (Surgeon Captain J McDowall, St Vincent);
• Imperial Institution (dried bananas, St Lucia);
• Repatriation Records (missing: dummy sheet only; Captain W G Mitchell, Windward Islands);
• Ministry of Labour (J L O'Donoghue - separation allowance, St Vincent; case of E D Clarke - separation allowance, Windward Islands);
• Colonial Office (Agricultural Department salaries, Windward Islands; salaries of Governor's private secretary and clerks, Grenada);
• Ministry of Munitions (War Department buildings at Cane Garden Point, St Vincent);
• West India Committee (Excess Profit Ordinance, Grenada);
• Imperial Commonwealth Committee (commercial wireless service with Martinique, St Lucia);

Individuals:

• W Bertrand (surveyor's course of training, Grenada);
• G F Branch (application for appointment in Agricultural Department, East Africa, Grenada);
• W H Bagot (Grenada: release from Army and his position; appointment as assistant inspector of schools; application for promotion);
• W R Bertrand (advance, Grenada);
• W Cuddleford (pension from government of Windward Islands);
• F H Coller (resignation from Colonial Service, Grenada);
• Mrs E H Cock (will of late Harry Smith, St Vincent);
• Major C de S Dunn (St Vincent: appointment, Chief of Police and colonial allowance; appointment to other colony or protectorate; promotion; colonial appointment; salary of Chief of Police; resignation as Chief of Police);
• Major H Davidson-Houston (refund passage money, St Lucia);
• E R Dunn (St Vincent: re-employment for Major Dunn; resignation);
• R Deane (appointment as Chief of Police and Inspector of Prisons, St Lucia);
• J M G Ewing (appointment as medical officer, Windward Islands);
• Captain P Eckel (missing: dummy sheet; his appointment in St Vincent, Windward Islands);
• M J Flanagan (appointment as auditor, Windward Islands);
• H Fergusson (transfer, Grenada);
• G J L Golding (St Lucia: leave on demobilisation; transfer, military service);
• G Golding (Major G J L Golding, St Lucia);
• D S Graham (appointment as medical officer, St Vincent);
• Hull, Blyth & Co (income tax, Peter Coaling Company, St Lucia);
• H J Huggins (St Vincent: Death Duties Ordinance; probate of will of Miss Huggins);
• Rev B Jarrett (procedure of Roman Catholic and Protestant Clergy, Grenada);
• D Hedog Jones (colonial administrative post, Grenada);

• J M Knight (promotion, Grenada);
• A Kidd (medical appointment in German East Africa, return to St Lucia, St Lucia);
• A Lovell (assistance, St Vincent);
• J McLaren (holding of religious gatherings, St Lucia);
• Major A Macdonald (ankylostomiasis, Grenada; application for sanitary administrative post in German East Africa, Jamaica, Grenada);
• G B Mason (St Vincent: post of chief medical officer, Antigua; re-employment in Colonial Medical Service; district medical officer, Grenada);
• J A Meldon (pension, Grenada);
• H B Morgan (Dr L S Morgan, Grenada);
• R E Negus (appointment as attorney general, St Lucia; delay in departure for St Lucia);
• R C Otway (re-employment, St Vincent);
• R D O'Neale (permission to retire on pension, Grenada);
• E Pegley (claim to pension and gratuity, Grenada);
• J S Rae (appointment as attorney general of St Vincent);
• F W Reeves (salary as Headmaster of Grammar School and Inspector of Schools, St Vincent);
• J Sutherland (missing: dummy sheet; assistance, St Vincent);
• E J Thompson (repatriation, Windward Islands);
• G A Wood (gratuity, St Lucia);
• Sir F Watts (St Vincent: application of Mr Harland for appointment in Egypt; education);
• Commissioner Watts (dried bananas from St Lucia);
• R O Williams (superintendent of agriculture, Grenada).

Topics

Shipping

International

Labour

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Radio and television

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Policing

Weapons

Coal

Food and drink

Navy

Wills and probate

Middle East

Communications

Education

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)