Correspondence from Offices [Government Departments and other organisations] on matters...

Correspondence from Offices [Government Departments and other organisations] on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (tramp steamer Hornjet [or Hornet], suspected of being a supply ship for enemy submarines; rum purchases; shipping losses); Crown Agents (proceeds of sale of sugar presented to British Government; superintendent engineer for Government steamers; financial standing of Mr A T Drummond; Demerara Railway Company [with printed report of the directors]; appointment of Director of Sea Defences; professional standing of Mr G O Case; contributions of certain Nigerian officials to British Guiana Widows' and Orphans' Fund; financial standing of Mr D Elliott Alves who has applied for an oil concession; coast erosion defence works; sea defence works; pay for Lieutenant C E L Cox; application of Mr Man Son Hing for post of Scientific Assistant in the Agricultural Department; coinage of fourpenny pieces); Foreign Office (bauxite deposits in British, French and Dutch Guiana; forwards letter from Vatican concerning Jesuits in British Guiana [in French]; Germans in Surinam; Venezuelan boundary; report of excursion of members of the Venezuelan Government to the Llanos; the Reverend E J Hans Müller; issue of passports by Consuls in the United States to persons of German descent; issue of passport to Reverend C J H Mueller [same person as E J H Müller?]; Home Office (punishment for breach of prison discipline; memorandum on punishment of convicts escaping from prison in England; practice in UK regarding convicts released on licence; restraints for violent prisoners); India Office (Canada-India League; Reverend E J H Muller [Müller, Mueller]; states that publication received from British Guiana is a book of songs and asks if the Censor there has adequate assistance for examining publications in Indian languages); Medical Adviser C W Daniels (his pension); House of Commons (question about 'figure of eight' punishment in Rupununi district); Board of Trade (observations on amendment of British Guiana Companies Ordinance 1913); Treasury (defaced coins; supply of fourpenny pieces; survey of deposits of aluminium ore; importation of silver and bronze coin); War Office (sea defences; letters addressed by Mr W A Abraham, Demerara, to Mr J Hapf, Basel; Theophilus Lee, law student; German deserters for Dutch Guiana; agrees with provisions of draft Police Force (Military Service Rank) Ordinance); Miscellaneous Offices: City of London Police Office (coconut companies); Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (self-recording tide gauges for Demerara River); Colonial Office (bauxite deposits; note of meeting with Sir Walter Egerton; Widows' and Orphans' Fund; railway to the interior; exemption from military service of munition workers from the colonies); War Intelligence Department (bauxite for Swiss German aluminium industry); Ministry of Munitions (bauxite deposits; supplies of bauxite; bauxite for USA; bauxite mining regulations; application of Norton Tool Company for bauxite concession; bauxite exports prohibition); West India Committee (self-recording tide gauges); City of Westminster Union (case of John Blair, unemployed former seaman); Prisoners of War Department (internment of four enemy subjects in the criminal prison at Georgetown; repatriation of Mrs Lena Abrahams); Royal Bank of Canada (application of Messrs Sprostons for bauxite concession); Royal Mint (design of 'special groat' [fourpenny piece]; Northern Aluminium Company Limited (bauxite shipments); Board of Customs and Excise (punishments for smuggling); General Post Office (increase of postage rates); Govan Combination Parish Council (case of Iris Eloise or Parnell, confined in the Glasgow Royal Asylum and a charge on the parish); British Empire Producers' Organisation (preference for British Empire produced rum); Demerara Company Limited (excess profits tax ); Foreign Trade Department (bauxite)

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