Correspondence from Individuals on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents...

Correspondence from Individuals on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Mr J P Auld (employment in British Guiana);
• Mr E R Anson (application for addition of war bonus to his pension);
• Mr P Bunyan (petition for reinstatement [not in volume]);
• Lord Balfour (financial aid to churches in British Guiana);
• Miss Cicely Blyth (tenders her resignation from the post of clerical assistant, Treasury, as she is now under contract with the American Expeditionary Forces and serving in France);
• Joseph Boyce (application for assistance pending settlement of his claim against the German Government concerning his internment in Ruhleben);
• A Gerald Biden (accepts appointment as auditor);
• Captain P E F Cressall (applies for post of Assistant District Commissioner in German East Africa [Tanganyika]; states willingness to accept other positions);
• Mrs Annie Isabel Cameron (requests outstanding salary of her late husband; asks why monies due are not now owing to her; submits claim for $144 of the $168 in the hands of the Public Trustee);
• Sir John Cadman (oil concession to D Elliott Alves [with printed copy of agreement]; grant of exploration licence to Mr Cannon);
• Mr H C F Cox (applies for a legal appointment and requests extension of leave; tenders his resignation; gives reason for resignation and requests interview);
• Sir Wilfred Collet, Governor of British Guiana (bauxite concessions; requests meeting with Secretary of State for delegation from British Guiana; requests meeting with Mr Montague or Lord Sinha; lighting of Georgetown Harbour; salary and pension for Mr T A Pope, Principal of Queen's College; deputation to India; post of Assistant to Attorney General; salary due to the late H A Cameron; possible migration of 'coloured' men now in UK [with names of 266 individuals willing to emigrate]; provision of merchant shipping for the colony; purchase of Demerara Railway by Government; colonial loans);
• Charles H Cyrus (petition against British Guiana Government);
• Mr J H Conyers (application for passage);
• Lieutenant Lionel S Davis (requests release from Army; departure for British Guiana and application for post of Commissary of Taxation);
• Sir W E Davidson (forwards letter from E C Buck applying for promotion);
• Mr A J Drummond (development of British Guiana; construction of railway system [with map showing proposed first lines];
• Demerara Company Limited (excess profits tax and repatriation of demobilised soldiers);
• E Mortimer Duke (forwards petition from merchant seamen J O Peazer, Henry Christy and Charles Jones requesting war service gratuity);
• Lieutenant Colonel J O'D Egan (re-employment while on pension);
• Dr J W Evans (bauxite [with extract from The Mining Journal, 20 December 1919]);
• Mr R M Fraser (position in Colonial Service);
• Colonel Claude Francis (increase of pension);
• Reverend A Fleming (financial aid to the churches);
• Mrs B Francis (increase of pension for Colonel Francis);
• Mr J Gilmour (financial aid to the churches);
• Mr C B Hamilton (accounts and report of Demerara Railway Company);
• Mr C W E Humphreys (re-employment in Colonial Survey Department);
• Mr J K D Hill (intends to retire and seeks information regarding pension);
• Mr H W Humphrys (seeks colonial appointment);
• Mr W C Harragin (applies for refund of income tax and seeks assistance in securing payment of debt);
• Henri George Heimberg (is about to be extradited from Siam to Straits Settlements, refers to his services to the Allies in British Guiana and seeks pardon [in French; with photograph of Heimberg]);
• Captain T H Iriving (application for transfer);
• Major W F Law (asks if pension will be affected if he takes up further employment; explains that he has been offered employment on a Medical Board);
• Captain E P Minett (seeks promotion);
• Mr T B MacQuaide (seeks transfer to an African colony);
• Mr A L Mansfield (application for a colonial appointment; application for re-employment; application for post in West Africa or West Indies; requests decision against further employment may be reconsidered);
• Reverend R L MacNie (financial aid to the churches);
• Mr E R D Moulder (application for post of Principal, Queen's College);
• Sir W D Mercer (appointment to 'Voting Trust' of British Controlled Oilfields Ltd);
• Nicholson & Company (railway concession; states is prepared to allocate 25% of ordinary stock to colonial government);
• Captain M M Napier (application for appointment as Staff Officer);
• Lieutenant S G Parsons (application for post of Inspector of Police);
• Mr T A Pope (requests increase of salary and recalculation of pension; requests details of his pension from Mauritius; applies for permission to retire; remarks on inadequacy of pension; returns paper of pension particulars; requests allowance on Mauritius pension);
• Sir David Prain (suggests candidates for posts of Assistant Director of Science and Agriculture and Assistant Botanist and Mycologist);
• Miss M Portlock-Dadson (requests particulars of pension to be paid to her mother in the event of her father's death);
• Mr C S Parker (development of sugar industry);
• Mr R S Peotter (bauxite concessions);
• Bernard J Ries (application for appointment);
• Russell & Company (forwards printed copy of statement of Demerara Bauxite Company [with plan showing land owned, leased and applied for]);
• Peter Spence & Sons Limited (bauxite; application for exploration licence);
• Mr A P Sherlock (application for concession of Matope Falls, Demerara);
• Jung Bahodur Singh (application for appointment in a colonial hospital);
• Mr W M Short (financial aid to the churches);
• Sir A Steel-Maitland (financial aid to the churches);
• Sandbach, Tinne & Company (protests against Customs (Balata) Ordinance of 1919);
• Mr S G Warner (observations on Widow's and Orphan's Pension Fund; further observations);
• Mr O Webber (application for promotion);
• Colonel Williams ('coloured' labour from the UK)

Topics

Shipping

Internment

International

Labour

Railways

Taxation

Asia

Migration

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Maps and plans

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Race relations

Aid and development

Children

Debt

Food and drink

Pardons

Americas