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

Correspondence from Offices (Government Departments and other organisations) and from Individuals on matters relating to British Guiana: Offices:

• Foreign Office (definition of 'Chinese' as understood by United States immigration authorities; modification of Venezuelan frontier administration; traffic, sale and manufacture of food and drugs; goods from Germany via Holland; balata industry in Surinam; postponement of demarcation of Venezuela/British Guiana boundary; care of children on plantations in Surinam; issue of passport to Mr R P Kaps; importation of German goods through United States);
• Home Office (anonymous letters received by Colonel de Rinzy; no observations on Steam Boilers Regulation Ordinance; 'unnatural' offences committed in prisons; Mr Kaps' application for permission to trade);
• India Office (Indian sedition);
• House of Commons (appointment of a further King's Counsel);
• Board of Trade (German goods imported into British Guiana; no observations on Shipping Casualties Prevention Ordinance; bauxite lands, comments on Trade Marks Ordinance; fees charged in connection with conveyance of seaman Joseph N Smith; coconut companies; insurance companies' investments; railway level crossings);
• Treasury (bauxite concessions; nickel coinage; seignorage on fourpenny pieces);
• War Office (defence arrangements; commission for Dr E L Massiah);
• British Aluminium Company Limited (bauxite concessions, request to be put in touch with US company; bauxite deposits);
• Colonial Nursing Association (recommends Miss Eliza E B Daykin for appointment as Divisional Nurse; withdraws recommendation following adverse report from Nigeria; recommends Miss H Burston);
• Tropical Exploitation Syndicate Limited (lease of an island; lease of Liberty Island);
• Board of Customs and Excise (surtax on rum; collection of licence duty);
• Colonial Office (contributions to London School of Tropical Medicine);
• Imperial Institute (petroliferous deposits; suitability of British Guiana timbers for gun-stocks);
• General Post Office (practice relating to return of letters to senders);
• Northern Aluminium Company Limited (bauxite leases; modification of terms of lease);
• West India & Panama Telegraph Company (rates for commercial work at naval wireless station);
• British Guiana Balata Company (requests removal of prohibition on balata export);
• British Red Cross (treatment in Britain of two West Indians released from internment in Germany);
• Youths' Emigration Training Home [Church Army] (gives details of clothing required by two West Indians released from internment in Germany);
• Parish of Glasgow (case of Christina Wilkshire now destitute in Scotland);
• Inland Revenue (war profit duty)

• Abrahams Brothers, Birmingham (licence to purchase diamonds, Mr Kaps' application for licence to trade in diamonds);
• Mr W G H Browne (requests further details about the post of Sanitary Inspector, which has been offered to him);
• Edmund Bagshawe (offer of papers of Sir P E Wodehouse, former governor of British Guiana and the Cape);
• Donald F Campbell (bauxite concessions; bauxite lands [several letters; see also Confidential Print West Indies No. 202, CO 884/12/9)];
• Mr W A Carruthers (his allowance);
• Curtis Campbell and Company (East Coast irrigation scheme; survey of the Lamaha Water Conservancy; criticism of Sir Walter Egerton's administration; East Coast and Lamaha Irrigation Scheme);
• Professor John Cadman (comments on draft ordinance to regulate importation, storage and sale of petroleum and inflamable liquids [with printed copy of comparable statutes enacted in Trinidad and Tobago, St Vincent and Barbados]);
• Dr C F Castor (his pension);
• W H Davis & Company (ask if they may deal with Messrs C Mehler & Company);
• Thomas Fairbairn (seeks interview to discuss his retirement and re-appointment; asks for assistance in obtaining a post in the UK);
• Clifton Grannum (application for appointment in West Africa; further on request for transfer; willingness to undertake employment in the Cameroons);
• Healey & Company (exchange of stamps);
• Dr T Ireland (requests further particulars of post of Colonial Surgeon, Weihaiwei);
• David J Imlack (gives particulars of Christina Wiltshire, distressed person, and asks if she can be repatriated);
• Mr T H Irving (allowance from Colonial Government during period of military service);
• Dr A C L La Frenais (offer of services to India Office; seeks advice on applying for commission in French Army Medical Corps; commission in Indian Medical Service);
• Mr W H Moffatt (withdraws acceptance of post of Sanitary Inspector);
• G B Mackenzie (bauxite leases);
• Mrs McNaught, former employer of Christina Wiltshire (does not intent to take her back to British Guiana);
• Mr G H Pairaudeau (requests advance on pension; seeks assistance in obtaining treatment for defective hearing);
• Mrs Sophie M Pilcher (complains of pro-German activities);
• Irvin Van Kin Scott (alleged despatch of letters to Germany by a Danish ship
• Gilbert D Sandison (wishes to serve with British Guiana Contingent);
• Dr G Snell (applies for medical appointment);
• James A Scott and Arnold Ford (apply for assistance following return from civilian internment camp at Ruhleben; further application);
• Smith Brothers and Company (seeks exemption from military service for staff considered indispensable);
• Mr J B Thelwall (asks that the amount of his St Lucia pension may be settled);
• Mr G A Tengelly (states that he has not yet received pension forms from Crown Agents);
• Mrs A H Wodehouse (transmits two parcels containing certain papers of Sir P E Wodehouse);
• Dr C G Young (asks if his pension would be affected by his taking on medical work in connection with recruits)

Topics

Welfare

Clothing

Internment

International

Manufacturing

Labour

Railways

Army

Trade and commerce

Migration

Radio and television

Nursing

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Treason and rebellion

Ireland

Children

Food and drink