Correspondence from offices (government departments and other organisations) and...

Correspondence from offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters relating to British Guiana.

Offices:

• Council Office (Civil List);
• Foreign Office (export trade from Venezuela, withdrawal of Police Force at Kwipa Landing, Dutch Guiana boundary, treatment of British subjects in balata industry in Dutch Guiana, wireless station at Boa Vista in Amazons, wireless communication with Brazil, waterfalls as sources of power, balata industry in Surinam, concession for river and tramway traffic, legislation affecting the retail spirit businesses, repatriation of Victor Reid from Paramaribo, claims of James A Bayard and others against Cuba);
• India Office (disturbances on Rosehall Estate);
• Board of Trade (Essequibo rubber and tobacco estates, classification of imports and exports, delivery of goods out of bond, customs duty on leaf tobacco, regulations governing the entry of goods, amendment of the insolvency order);
• Treasury (preferential tariff);
• War Office (conditions of employment for sergeant major and drill instructor, application of Colonel G C de Rinzy);
• Colonial Office (paper producing plant known as 'hedychium coronarium' with enclosures of two specimen and a bulletin on the subject from Kew Gardens);
• British Guiana Constructors Limited (railway from Georgetown to Takutu River on the Brazilian frontier);
• West India Committee (riot on Rosehall Estate, dissatisfied 'coolies' in Natal);
• General Post Office (wireless communication with Para, wireless station of West Indies and Panama Telegraphic Company);
• Montserrat Company (survey of the Essequibo);
• Colonial Nursing Association (appointment of divisional nurse of the public hospital in Georgetown);
• Kew Gardens (vacancy for horticultural superintendent in the Department of Science and Agriculture);
• Board of Agriculture (importation of animals and disease order, standard of purity order for food and drugs);
• Public Record Office (inspection of records);
• Colonial Bank (Bank Notes Bill and note redemption);

Individuals:

• R J Scott Bushe (application for transfer);
• Balfour, Williamson and Company (railway to the Brazilian frontier);
• H Bayon (leprosy);
• Harry Bauford (enquiry for vacancies under the Natural Health Insurance Commission);
• Edward C Buck (appointment of colonial engineer);
• H Buyan (appointment);
• Sir Charles Cox (system of criminal trial);
• Charles E Chase (application for assistance);
• Frank Daphne (case of Howell v Dering and others);
• N D Davis (inspection of records);
• Colonel Claude A Francis (appointment of inspector general of Police at Barbados);
• W J Gilchrist (examination in Roman Dutch Law);
• Rupert Guinness (request of Dr F T Wills for promotion);
• Sir F M Hodgson (Essequibo Rubber and Tobacco Estates Company);
• Francis G Harvey (working of bauxite deposits);
• J R Hill (petition concerning the salary for the post of pay and quartermaster of the Police Force);
• W A Lamborn (post of entomologist in Southern Nigeria);
• Dr W F Law (ankylostomiasis);
• Johannes Lerps (Brazilian boundary);
• A J McConnell (riot on Rosehall Estate);
• C E Murtlund (case of Howell v Dering and others);
• H Percy McInray (transfer to West Africa);
• C Sandbach Parker (development of the colony);
• R C Poulter (railway concession);
• J Pointer (vacancy on the Executive Council);
• Reverend Alfred Rowland (complaint against Dr Minnet);
• R O H Spence (case of Howell v Dering);
• W Francis Smartt (contributions to the Widows and Orphans Fund);
• B O Smith (application for advance);
• J Buckeley Thelwall (application for extension of leave);
• J A Varey (appointment as assistant engineer);
• C S Wills (appointment in Home or Colonial Service).

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