Letters from various government offices (departments) and other organisations most...

Letters from various government offices (departments) and other organisations most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/308, CO 321/309, CO 321/310, and CO 321/312. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (St Lucia: Martinique - wireless communication; Guadeloupe - St Lucia communication; 'disturbances'; unrest in St Lucia; naval wireless station; grant for son of stoker Thomas Redhead);
• Crown Agents (temporary increase of pensions, Windward Islands; Admiralty expenditure, St Lucia; pensions of Sir G Denton and Mr J B Walker, Windward Islands; Sergeant Major H Jennings war gratuity, Grenada; Treasury notes for colonial government, Grenada; increase of pensions, Windward Islands; Sergeant Major H Jennings passage deposit, Grenada; contributions to Army pensions, St Lucia, Trinidad; furniture for Government House, St Vincent; manager of government garage, Grenada; passages for Captain A C Freeth, Windward Islands; current account, St Vincent);
• Foreign Office (Roman Catholic church - local administration, Windward Islands; death of Rupert Lorris, Grenada; R Popham Lobb - appointment in Palestine, St Vincent; Sir T Haycraft - appointment as Chief Justice in Palestine, Grenada);
• India Office (Dr W A George, St Vincent);
• Medical Adviser (Dr Kennan - Miss V J Dargan, St Vincent; Sir J R Bradford - J P Coghlan, Grenada);
• House of Commons (R[?] Jones distressed seamen; military cemetery, St Lucia; seditious publications ordinance, Grenada);
• Board of Trade (distressed colonial seamen, R Jones, Grenada);
• Treasury (Popham Lobb employment, St Vincent);
• War Office (Sergeant Major H Jennings, Grenada; award of Victory Medal, and British War Medal, St Lucia, Grenada; occupation of St Lucia by Canadian troops; proposed sale of certain War Department lands, St Lucia);
• Kew Gardens (appointment of Maurice Vardy as assistant superintendent of Agriculture, Grenada);
• Colonial Office (increase in salaries, Windward Islands; Guadeloupe - St Lucia wireless service);
• Board of Customs & Excise (excise ordinance, St Vincent);
• Cork Regimental Paymaster (Sergeant Major F D Brown, St Lucia);
• Metropolitan Police (Sergeant Major of Police A Robinson, Grenada);
• West India Committee (excise profits ordinance, 1919, Grenada);
• Ministry of Munitions (cane garden point - disposal of temporary buildings, St Vincent);
• Union of Teachers (salaries of teachers, Grenada);
• Commissioner of Police (A Robinson declines appointment, Grenada; appointment of sergeant major of police, Grenada; T P Bason);
• Inland Revenue (excess profits duty, Grenada; disposal of obsolete postage stamps, Grenada);
• Colonial Office (seditious publications bill, Grenada; Amos Ross - distressed seamen, Windward Islands);
• Russian Refugees (repatriation of W Lovell and family, St Vincent);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (police appointment, Grenada; sub-inspector of police, St Lucia);
• Sugar Commission (retention of sugar by local authorities, St Lucia);
• Overseas Nursing Association (Miss Vivian Irene Dargan, St Vincent);
• Royal Bank of Canada (note issue, St Lucia);
• London School of Tropical Medicine (Dr H E B Richards, St Lucia);
• Board of Education (higher education of ex-service students, Grenada);
• Health Board, New York (report on hookworm disease, St Lucia).

Topics

Refugees

International

Labour

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Medals

Radio and television

Religions

Nursing

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Ireland

Food and drink

Navy

Americas

Middle East

Communications

Education