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 (Charles E L Cox, temporary Assistant Torpedo Store Officer; prospecting and mining of bauxite; construction of refining plant by Demerara Bauxite Company [with plan showing land owned, leased and applied for by company]; wireless communication between Demerara and Trinidad);
• Crown Agents (manager and blaster for Government quarry; transfer of investments; indebtedness of Mr S Manson [or Man Son] Hing; oil concessions for Mr D Elliott Alves; advances to British Guiana; reports death of Mr H A Cameron; vessels for steamer service; salary of Captain R Thomson; vacancy for Superintending Engineer, Government Steamer Service; travelling expenses of nurses on completion of engagements; Demerara Railway Company [printed copy of report of directors]; proposed transfer of securities under Ordinance 19 of 1896 to Sinking Fund under Ordinance 7 of 1887; reports that Sir Wilfred Collet has arrived on leave; appointment of Mr E P Eustice as Quarry Blaster; salary due from Gibraltar for Miss S Clapham, Superintendent of Nurses; main drainage of Georgetown; investigation and working of bauxite; claim for loss of wages from Mr N J Clark; railway concession in British Guiana; proposed purchase of Demerara Railway by Colonial Government; difficulty of obtaining passages for 'native' officials; continuing negotiations with Mr D E Alves concerning bauxite concessions [with reports and plans]; calculation of contributions to Sinking Funds; further report and accounts of Demerara Railway Company);
• Foreign Office (issue of passports; petition from Portuguese Vice Consul; non-Dutch companies and individuals in Surinam; Chinese interests in British Guiana; issue of passports to British balata bleeders contracted for Surinam [with list of individuals giving date of contract and if previously employed there; list is damaged and some names are missing]; issue of 'certificat de coutume' to enable James Payne to marry a French citizen; compensation claim of Mrs S Canterbury following death of her son);
• Home Office (application of Mr H Seedorff, a German subject, for British naturalisation);
• India Office (comments on report of Immigration Agent General; table of diet for Indian Troops' and Departmental Followers' Hospitals for possible use in establishing diets for leper asylum; minutes of meetings at the India Office and the Colonial Office with a delegation from the British Guiana Colonisation Society concerning further development of the colony, demand for labour, etc.; visit of British Guiana delegation to India);
• Board of Trade (carrying of passengers in cargo steamers; application of British Guiana Coconut Estates Limited for permission to raise fresh capital);
• War Office (colonial military appointments; emoluments for Staff Officer, Local Forces [with printed copy of Army Orders, 1919]; record of service of Temporary Lieutenant Harry Warner Humphrys; recommends Lance Sergeant S Billyeald for appointment as Sergeant Rough Rider to the Mounted Police; selection of Lieutenant K G G Dennys as Staff Officer to Local Forces; states that Captain R W Galloway is still available for appointment as Medical Officer of Health)

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Trinity House (improvement of lighting of approach to Georgetown Harbour; marking of approach to Georgetown Harbour);
• Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies (possible use of water power; observations on Mr Stafford Comber's report on water power; report of Mr Vaux Graham on Mr Comber's report);
• Demerara Company Limited (sugar industry: excess profits duty, shortage of labour, and lack of fertilisers);
• West India Committee (labour shortage consequent to termination of East Indian immigration; excess profits tax);
• Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company Limited (railway project);
• Local Government Board (no observations on the Food and Drugs Sale Ordinance 1918);
• Colonial Office (memorandum by Captain Gorst on Georgetown Harbour; gold dredging in colony; application for promotion from Mr E C Buck, Colonial Civil Engineer; minutes of a discussion on bauxite at a meeting of the Geological Section of the Colonial Survey Committee; printed copy of pamphlet by Mr W Hewley Wharton and Mr Joseph A Luckhoo of the East Indian Section of the British Guiana Imperial Colonisation Scheme; minutes of meeting of delegation to Secretary of State concerning colonisation scheme; list of four intending applicants for bauxite prospecting licences);
• Ministry of Food (food production in British Guiana);
• Overseas Nursing Association (recommends appointment of Miss Anne Muncaster as Divisional Nurse; recommends appointment of Miss Susie Clapham as Superintendent of Nurses, Georgetown Hospital);
• Ministry of Shipping (homeward shipping accommodation);
• Land Registry (observations on Ordinance No. 17 of 1919, Deeds Registry);
• British Guiana Constructors Limited (railway construction; further proposal regarding railway construction);
• Ministry of Munitions (bauxite deposits);
• British Guiana Bauxite Limited (bauxite concessions);
• Reconstruction and Federation of Industries Limited (provision of merchant shipping; construction of hinterland railway);
• Air Ministry (purchase of a hydroplane);
• Tropical Diseases Bureau (returns copy of Report on Work for the Relief and Control of Hookworm Disease in British Guiana by F W Bershimer, MD);
• The Financial Times (enquires if British Controlled Oilfields have obtained oil rights over the whole of British Guiana);
• London School of Tropical Medicine, Seamen's Hospital (investigation of cure of filarial disease);
• Petroleum Executive (drilling for oil in British Guiana);
• Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau (bauxite concessions);
• Indians Overseas Association (grievances of Indians);
• British Guiana Deputation (Indian immigration: reports satisfactory result of interview with Mahatma Gandhi);
• British Water Power Development Company Limited (water power and bauxite [with extracts from engineering supplements to The Times dated June 1916 and February 1919)

Topics

Shipping

Government finances

International

Mental illness

Railways

Army

Taxation

Marriage and divorce

Migration

Radio and television

Nursing

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Air Force

Maps and plans

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Resources

Construction industries

Food and drink