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Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William...
Catalogue reference: CO 23/281
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This record is about the Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William... dating from 1917 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Bahamas, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 23/281
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Date (When the record was created)
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1917
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William Lamond Allardyce (1917 Oct-Dec); together with letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals, 1917, most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in this volume as well as CO 23/279 and CO 23/280. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices and Individuals is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments):
- Admiralty (lighting restrictions, labour for logging for mahogany in Nicaragua, wireless station at Nassau, marine patrol);
- Privy Council Office (Admiralty jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, petitions for leave to appeal in forma paueris);
- Foreign Office (Island of Salt Cay, shipment of sponges to Holland, facilities for philanthropic work);
- Board of Trade (British West Indies Regiment transport arrangements);
- Treasury (importation of currency notes);
- War Office (Red Cross emblem on stamps);
- General Post Office (Red Cross postage stamps, wireless messages via the United States, commercial wireless service with Jamaica);
- The Colonial Nursing Association (matron, charge nurse);
- Ministry of Munitions (J H Knowles);
- British Museum (Marine Products Board Report 1916);
- Ministry of Shipping (food supply control, requisitioning of local vessels)
- Sir W L Allardyce (R H Crawford, Circuit Magistrate vacancy, K Solomon);
- C K Ackrill (complaint against local traders);
- Charles Boss & Co Ltd (labour for logging in Nicaragua);
- Mrs M B Bonhote (post of police commandant);
- Dr Angela B Cavendish (loan of island for agricultural community);
- C S M Connors (application to Bahamas police);
- A D Defries (copy of In a Forgotten Colony-not in volume);
- George F Hammond (Information regarding the Bahamas, copy of song 'Freedom For Humanity');
- Mary Jacombs (uniform allowance, application for charge nurse position)
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3093908/
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