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Catalogue reference: CO 111/634
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This record is about the Correspondence from Offices (Government Departments and other organisations) on matters... dating from 1920 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara, and.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 111/634
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Date (When the record was created)
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1920
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence from Offices (Government Departments and other organisations) on matters relating to British Guiana.
Offices (Government Departments):
- Parliament, House of Commons (Labour Union Incorporation, report of Mr Comber on hydro-electric power);
- Board of Trade (adoption of metric system, case of the incapacitated 'coloured' seaman Jacob Collis);
- Treasury (flora of British Guiana and West Indies);
- War Office (defence of Georgetown, gratuity for Sergeant S Billyeald, war gratuity and leave for Sergeant Major W T Sanders);
- 'Pontadelgada' (death of Inspector H W Birch);
- British Guiana Bauxite Limited (bauxite concessions);
- General Post Office (interruption of West Indies and Panama Telegraph Company's cable, wireless coast stations at Demerara and Trinidad);
- British Guiana Constructions Limited (improvement of overland communication);
- Royal Bank of Canada (additional note issue);
- West India Committee (colonisation scheme deputation to India, visit of Prince of Wales to British Guiana);
- Imperial Institute (bauxite deposits on Demerara River district);
- Colonial Office (medical vacancies adverts in Medical Journal, visit of Prince of Wales);
- British Controlled Oilfields Limited (service of E C Buck);
- Overseas Nursing Association (appointment of Miss E Gifkins and Miss F Parkinson);
- London Provincial South Western Bank Limited (overdrawn account of J P Auld);
- Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau (cattle trial of bauxite deposits);
- British Aluminium Company Limited (licences and concessions for bauxite);
- Law Society (application to British Guiana of the Colonial Solicitors Act 1900);
- Petroleum Department (oil storage tank for Demerara, oil fields and value as compared with coal);
- Scottish Office (application to British Guiana of the Colonial Solicitors Act 1900);
- Charity Organisation Committee (assistance to Miss E Clementson);
- Federation of British Industries (hydro-electric power development, employment of foreign engineer on Government work, employment of S X Comber );
- Law Society of Ireland (Colonial Solicitors Act 1900);
- Royal Irish Constabulary Depot (allowances of J H Ashmore and other officers whilst on Royal Irish Constabulary course);
- Inland Revenue (collection of excess profit duty);
- Board of Education (vacancy of Assistant Inspector of Schools);
- Air Ministry (Seaplane Service, control and working of the bauxite concessions);
- Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau (shallow boxing equipment for Colony, bauxite deposits at Christianburg and proposed concessions and regulations, enclosures containing maps of British Guiana);
- Church of Scotland (nominations for the appointment of Scottish Ministers in British Guiana);
- West Indian Contingent Committee (application of Nathan A Duke for employment as Assistant Sanitary Inspector);
- Kew Gardens (flora of British Guiana);
- Indians Overseas Association (selling price of rice).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C345056/
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