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Correspondence received from individuals (A-E) on subjects concerning British Guiana...

Catalogue reference: CO 111/635

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This record is about the Correspondence received from individuals (A-E) on subjects concerning British Guiana... 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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Reference

CO 111/635

Date

1920

Description

Correspondence received from individuals (A-E) on subjects concerning British Guiana during the period January to December 1920.

Individuals:

  • Arnold Chadwick Fooks & Co (indebtedness of the late H A Cameron);
  • E C Buck (professional qualifications, services in connection with the war, bauxite from Seba Quarry, oil fuels, appointment of chief commissioner, Victoria government railways, dry dock at Penal Settlement, searchlight, excavating machine, fire pumping plant at Lunatic Asylum, personal allowance, retirement);
  • J D M Bourne (appointment of assistant auditor, advance and departure);
  • Sir H A Bovell (appointment on Enemy Debts Committee, effect on colonial pension);
  • Balfour Beatty (hydro-electric power);
  • Dr J Banadara Singh (appointment, surgeon superintendent in migrant ships);
  • E A Bugle (resignation);
  • P M Benson (resignation);
  • A G Bagshawe (filariasis, report by Dr F G Rose - photograph enclosed);
  • Dr W S Barnes (re-employment);
  • H N G Cobbe (bauxite deposits, bauxite lands, bauxite concessions);
  • C Clementi (sea plane service, appointment of vice chancellor of Hong Kong University);
  • Miss Elizabeth Clementson (application for assistance due to her ill-health);
  • S K Comber (sea defence appointment);
  • J Carmichael-Ferrall (land concession in colony);
  • R H Charles (filariasis, report by the Tropical Diseases Research Fund Committee);
  • C A Campbell (bauxite concessions);
  • A J Drummond (development of colony, railway construction);
  • W J Duncan (resignation);
  • C W Doorly (services, colonisation scheme, passage for his wife to India, salary and allowances in India, visit of Mr Hill to India, salary on voyage to India, travelling allowances, 'Coolie' immigration, Indian immigration, employment in India, future movements);
  • P H Ezechiel (utilisation of water power, bauxite deposits);
  • Dr J W Evans (bauxite deposits and other unusual resources, petroleum in British Guiana, proportion of bauxite imports from British Guiana).

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Subjects
Topics
International
Labour
Mental illness
Railways
Trade and commerce
Asia
Migration
Oil and gas
Pay and pensions
Electricity
Construction industries
Debt
Americas
Mining and quarrying
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