Correspondence from Offices (Government Departments) on matters relating to British...

CO 111/633

1920

Correspondence from Offices (Government Departments) on matters relating to British Guiana.

Offices:

• Admiralty (bauxite deposits, disturbances in British Guiana, situation in British Guiana, tidal predictions for Georgetown for 1921, movements of HMS Weymouth, Demerara wireless station, bauxite concessions, experiments at wireless telegraph stations in Bermuda and Demerara);
• Crown Agents (cost of Mr Stephenson's visit to British Guiana and Bermuda, engagement of B O Bush as District Engineer, bauxite developments, appointment of an irrigation engineer, investment of Government money in Canada War Loan, repatriation payment to Joseph Boyce, claim for war bonus for 1919 of Miss L M Walker, grant for oil rights for D Elliott Alves, advances to the Colonial Government, advances to Dr J J Nunan, West India and Panama Telegraph Company's subsidy - deduction in respect of the interruption between Trinidad and British Guiana, General Loan and Inscribed Stock Order 31 of 1913, expenses and deputations for the colonisation scheme, acquisition of Demerara Railway by the Colonial Government, request for plans and specifications of the oil storage tanks, allowance whilst on Royal Irish Constabulary course for J H Ashmore, Widows and Orphans contributions for W M Steele, pension for T A Pope, appointment of County Sanitary Inspectors in British Guiana, Demerara Railway report and accounts, recommendation for Charles Ratcliff to the post of County Sanity Inspector, employment of Sir Francis Spring, application of S Geening for appointment in Gambia, recommendation of Mr Fawcett for the post of Bandmaster, appointment of Assistant Director of the Public Works Department, application of Dr J Bahadore Singh for appointment as Surgeon Superintendent in the Indian Emigration Service, grant of oil rights to D Elliott Alves, oil investigation by D Elliott Alves, Georgetown harbour improvement, depreciation of investments account in connection with the Public Offices Guarantee Fund, contributions of W M Steele to the British Guiana Widows and Orphans Fund, appointment of Mathew Nairn as County Sanitary Inspector);
• Foreign Office (acquisition of land by foreigners, extradition treaty with Venezuela, surtax on imports from British Guiana, export of rice to Colombia, Dutch West Indies - development of Surinam, export of wine to British Guiana, Royal Bank of Canada's application for permission to open branch in Surinam, raids into Brazilian territory from British Guiana);
• India Office (marriage and divorce of Asiatics draft Bill, colonisation scheme, Indian immigration, salary of C W Doory if reappointed, Indian press comments on the colonisation scheme, emoluments of C W Doorly, refusal of grant of licenses for emigration of individuals, salary and allowances for C W Doorly, Indian emigration to Fiji and British Guiana).

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