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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from various offices [government...
Catalogue reference: CO 123/289
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This record is about the Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from various offices [government... dating from 1917 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: British Honduras, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 123/289
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1917
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from various offices [government departments and other organizations] and individuals on matters related to British Honduras [Belize]. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:
- Admiralty (supply and export of mahogany, wireless communication with Jamaica, defence, wireless station at Belize);
- Foreign Office (Mexican Consul at Belize, disturbed state of the frontier with Guatemala, affairs in Central America, defence, prevention of smuggling, W Young's visit to the US, intrigue against the Honduras government, relations of Guatemala with Mexico, Salvador, and Honduras; Bill to prohibit acquisition of land by aliens, Alfred R Tayelor, wireless communication, proposed union of Central American republics);
- Home Office (removal of A R Tayelor from the colony);
- War Office (defence, commissioner for aliens, Lieutenant Colonel E L Cowie's conditions of appointment);
- General Post Office (wireless service, postage stamps for the Canadian Post Office);
- Colonial Office (defence, mahogany requirements for 1918, appointment of William Hart Bennett as governor);
- Honduras Trading Company (position of the company);
- British Museum (Ordinance No 1 of 1917 Wild Birds Protection amendment);
- Belize Estate & Produce Company (mahogany requirements for 1918);
- Department of Scientific Research (mahogany requirements for 1918);
- Mrs A Bristow (A R Tayelor);
- Gush, Phillips, Walters & Williams (Honduras Trading Company);
- O Hoare (light railway to mahogany area);
- R Starkey (supplies of mahogany);
- Alfred R Tayelor (requests government employment after being freed from imprisonment);
- John Verity (application for appointment as clerk of courts in Jamaica).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3608411/
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Colonial Office and predecessors: British Honduras, Original Correspondence
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