Correspondence from Offices (Government Departments and other organisations) on matters...

CO 111/581

1911

Correspondence from Offices (Government Departments and other organisations) on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (mineral oil regulations for mining);
• Crown Agents (National Electric Construction Company Limited, oil mining companies, Governor's scholars, proposed grant to Captain John Disney and Messrs E Farnum Sterry and J A Tregelles, labour recruiting, financial resources of Messrs Allen Brothers Wood and Company, oil prospecting, conveyance of 'coolie' emigrants, requisitions for Emigration Agency, steam disinfecting apparatus for the Emigration Agency in Calcutta, railway survey, local steamship service, application of Allan Brothers Wood and Company for railway concession, maps of Brazilian and Venezuelan boundaries);
• British Guiana Government Emigration Agency, Calcutta (accounts of agency ended 31 March 1911, recruiting of labour, expenditure on emigration to British Colonies during 1910-11);
• Foreign Office (railway concession in Amazonas, wireless telegraphy Georgetown to Paramaribo, Brazilian boundary, Venezuela boundary and disturbances, railway concession for Allen Brothers Wood and Company, balata industry, railway from Manaos to frontiers, distressed 'natives' in Brazil, navigation of Barima and Amacura rivers by British Guiana launches, term of female Indian indenture in British Guiana, cases of Bhai Parmanand Mr Bhutan and Dr Raman Narayan Sharma);
• India Office (anchylostome infected emigrants to British Guiana);
• Medical Advisers (health reports of Dr de W Wishart, Reverend T Longley);
• Parliament (appointment of a Foreign Consul to seat on Executive Council, incidence of cost of indenturing 'coolies' to planters of British Guiana);
• Board of Trade (wireless telegraphy, new Customs regulations, report of official receiver for the year 1910);
• War Office (cases of Lieutenant A L Farrant and Sergeant W T Sanders, claim of return passage cost for Sergeant G H Forsythe);
• Colonial Office (salary of Governor, cotton growing, draft petroleum mining regulations);
• Imperial Institute (examination of balata specimens, examination of 'bastard' balata);
• Customs Office (examination of goods in British Guiana);
• Law Society (solicitors examination);
• Trinidad Prospectors Limited (oil mining licences and prospecting for oil);
• Consolidated Rubber and Estates (export tax on balata);
• The Demerara Rubber Company Limited (export tax on balata);
• Asylums Committee Office of London (cases of 'lunatics' Miss Clarice Rupertie and Mr John Steele);
• British Guiana Oilfields Company (prospecting permissions, scheme of development);
• Prestwich Union (case of David Clarke);
• Civil Service Commission (exam of J Ross, post of Assistant Inspector of Police);
• General Post Office (late arrivals of mail steamers and branch steamers of Royal Mail Steamers Packet Company);
• British Guiana Balata Company Limited (balata industry and labour conditions);
• Charity Organisation Society (case of Miss Edith McMillan);
• Royal Mail Steamers Packet Company (repatriation of Miss Edith McMillan);
• Local Government Body (Ordinance 8 of 1911 on Quarantine, form of order check book for use in Poor Law Unions, quarantine ordinance);
• Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (pharmacy ordinance);
• Colonial Nursing Association (appointment as Divisional Nurse in Georgetown Hospital).

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