Letters from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals....

Letters from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals. Much of the correspondence with government departments deals with matters covered in despatches sent from the governor of British Guiana (see CO 111/593-597) and referred by the Colonial Office for comment, advice or authorisation. This correspondence is not listed at item level; correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• Home Office (police protection for sugar estates);
• India Office (constitutional position of East Indians, riot on Rose Hall estate, Indian sedition, United States immigration law);
• House of Commons (proposed railway);
• Board of Trade (companies ordinance, duties on leaf tobacco, Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Society's ordinance, railway development, companies consolidation ordinance, trade marks bill, metric system of weights and measures, prohibition on export of sugar from the West Indies, balata, Georgetown Coconut Estates Limited, German goods detained by Customs);
• Treasury (seignorage on fourpenny pieces, legal tender of British silver, gold shipments);
• War Office (Lieutenant A B Rose's wound pension, gift of rice for Indian troops);

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Royal Bank of Canada (business of British Guiana Bank, security against note issue);
• Colonial Bank (note redemption);
• Board of Education (training of colonial teachers);
• General Post Office (telegraph rates between British Guiana and Venezuela, conveyance of parcels in bags, automatic stamp delivery machines, plain language telegrams);
• Board of Agriculture (letters of introduction for A Leechman);
• Kew Gardens (horticultural superintendent);
• Angostura Bitters Limited (trade marks);
• Colonial Office (preferential tariff, cattle breeding, ostrich farming);
• Demerara Company Limited (sugar);
• Royal Commission on Sugar Supplies (purchase of sugar);
• Consolidated Rubber and Balata Estates Limited (application for assistance; advances against balata);
• Tropical Life journal (coconut company promotion);
• Bank of England (deposit of gold);
• Imperial Institute (balata);
• Society of Accountants and Auditors (local examination for auditors);
• Inland Revenue (complaints of Messrs Healey re exchange of stamps)

Individuals:

• Adam, Thomson and Ross (death of Mrs A Fowler);
• A H Baker (application for promotion);
• T H D Berridge (timber lands);
• Bryant & May (excise duty on matches);
• Captain H M Brunker (application for re-employment);
• J H Brewster (dismissal from Police Force);
• Mrs F P Brunell (remittances from her husband);
• D Baird & Co. (motor mail service);
• D J Bell (enlistment);
• Sir C T Cox (pension);
• Sir R H Charles (ankylostomiasis);
• D F Campbell (exclusive prospecting permission, bauxite concession);
• Curtis, Campbell & Co. (ordinance re East Demerara Conservancy etc.);
• Cobbe, H N G (bauxite lands);
• W M Campbell (irrigation works);
• F Daphne (action against Essequibo Rubber & Tobacco Estates Ltd, Howell v. Derring and others);
• J Dublin (dismissal from Police Force in 1904);
• C R Davies (pay as acting attorney general);
• E W F English (application for re-employment);
• W J Gilchrist (call to the Bar);
• C B Hamilton (Ogle Navigation Canal);
• S M Hoye (railway);
• E Healey & Co. (exchange of stamps);
• Mrs C M Knight (widows and orphans pension);
• Mrs H King (Miss L Hampden King);
• Dr W F Law (pension);
• A Leechman (application for promotion);
• J D Lawrence (application for transfer);
• R J Manning (application for promotion);
• H McLean (retirement);
• Sir P Manson (ankylostomiasis);
• Sir C Major (appointment as chief justice);
• J Nunan (constitutional functions of Executive Council, chief justiceship, constitution of colony, extension of leave, common law codification and reform);
• R C McC Poulter (railway concession);
• T A Pope (post of science master, post of assistant master);
• G H Pairaudeau (retirement, pension);
• Sir R Ross (ankylostomiasis);
• R Service (appointment as horticultural superintendent);
• H W Sconce (date of appointment as inspector of schools);
• B V Shaw (application for appointment as protector of immigrants);
• A E Shipley (ankylostomiasis);
• W F Smartt (effect of service in Royal Army Medical Corps on pension rights);
• S & E Triefus (advances on diamonds)

Topics

International

Labour

Mutual societies

Public disorder

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Policing

Treason and rebellion

Children

Food and drink

Crime

Forestry

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Communications

Education