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Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William...
Catalogue reference: CO 23/278
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This record is about the Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William... dating from 1916 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bahamas, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 23/278
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1916
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Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William Lamond Allardyce (1916 Sept-Dec), together with letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals, 1916, most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in this volume and CO 23/277. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices and Individuals is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments):
- Admiralty (telegraphic communication, Bowden wireless/telegraphy station, sale of Salt Cay);
- Crown Agents (improvement of Nassau Harbour);
- Foreign Office (firms of A Lewin & NVL Veem, marking of Mantanilla Shoal, status of sponge importers Lasker & Bernstein, possible base for German submarines, sponges as contraband);
- Home Office (Act 5, 1916 Naturalisation Act);
- Board of Trade (shipment of sponges, marking of Mantanilla reef, ship Caithness-shire);
- General Post Office (telegraphic communication / wireless);
- Colonial Nursing Association (matron and charge nurse, general hospital);
- Custom House (Netherlands Oversea Trust Certificate);
- British Museum of Natural History (sponge fishery);
- Colonial Office (shipment of sponges);
- General Council of Medical Education and Registration (Dentist Act, 1916).
- Direct West India Cable Company (Wireless Station at Nassau).
- E Henderson (charge against Dr Walter Hess);
- H L Jameson (appointment in Colonial Service);
- Lawrence Kirk (Sisal Fibre Company).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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Colonial Office and predecessors: Bahamas, Original Correspondence
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