Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William...

CO 23/285

1919

Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William Lamond Allardyce (1919 Nov-Dec), together with letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals (1919), most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in this volume and CO 23/284. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices and Individuals is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (inefficiency of the wireless station, yachts Ranger and Coraline, vacancies for wireless telegraph operators);
• Crown Agents (Mrs. Connors' separation allowance, Charge Nurse M Senior, sponge industry);
• Foreign Office (Rev Chrysostom Schreiner, searching of British vessels for liquor in Florida);
• Board of Trade (lighted buoy to mark Matanilla Schoal [reef] in the Florida Strait, expenses incurred due to Free at Last);
• Treasury (salary of governor, importation of British currency notes from New York);
• Archbishop of Canterbury (Bishop of Nassau);
• Colonial Office (Colonial Research Committee grant for sponge investigation, grant of Crown Land to Major F Lister for a hotel);
• Department of Overseas Trade (salt industry at Inagua);
• Aerial Register & Gazette (proposal for aerial transport between the Bahamas and Florida);
• Air Ministry (aerial service between the Bahamas and Florida);
• British Museum, Natural History (proposed sponge investigation, L R Crawshay's appointment to investigate sponges);
• East Riding Territorial Force Association (appointment of W Spooner as Sergeant Major in the Bahamas Police Force);
• The Overseas Nursing Association (recommends Evangeline Petty for appointment as charge nurse);
• West India Cable Company (wireless communication with Jamaica);
• Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (galvanised wire for use in artificial sponge culture);

• Charles J Ackrill (complaint against Bahamian traders);
• Sir William Allandyce (arrival on leave, salary, vessel for Bishop of Nassau, purchase of Crown Land);
• Cole, Dickin & Hills (sponge industry);
• L R Crawshay (appointment as sponge investigation research officer, sponge industry);
• Major F V Lister (purchase of Crown Land);
• Alice Menendez (Rev Chrysostom Schreiner, statement against the annexation of Bahamas to the United States);
• Preece, Cardew, Snell & Rider [consulting engineers] (improvement of Nassau wireless station);
• A C Roessler (sale of war stamps);
• Short Brothers [Aeronautical Engineers] (purchase of an island or islands);
• Major E C Sherman (grant of land to ex-officers);
• Captain A Swinton (aerial transport between Florida and the Bahamas);
• Charles Sidney Thompson (complaint against the postmaster in Nassau)

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