Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from various offices [government...

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 (defence of the colony, mahogany contracts for 1917, export duty on mahogany and cedar, mahogany cutting on land of H J Cramer, establishment of a sawmill at Belize, P S Berry's employment at the wireless telegraph station, armoured motor launch, transfer of San Carlos to British flag, report of the local director of Admiralty contracts);
• Crown Agents (Honduras Trading Company, purchase of Riversdale Estate from C Denny);
• Foreign Office (Guatemala earthquake, boundary between British Honduras and Mexico, detention of British subject Ernest Castillo in Mexico, Guatemala 1916 frontier incident, situation in Mexico, Mexican consul general in Cuba, supply of cohune nuts for the US War Department, San Carlos, treaties with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua);
• Home Office (National Fire Brigades Union);
• Treasury (launches for the colonial government, advance to the colony);
• War Office (remuneration of staff officer, defence of the colony, appointment of J P Auld for commissioned rank, enrolment of aliens in the territorial force, purchase of motor launch from the US, private secretary to the governor, machine guns and ammunitions, Lieutenant Colonel S L Cowie's 1917 mission expenses, Territorial Force Ordinances 6 and 11);
• General Post Office (overprinting of new three cent stamps, wireless station staff, treaties with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua):
• Direct West India Cable Company (commercial wireless telegraph traffic through Bowden and Kingston);
• Colonial Office (mahogany);
• Companies Registration Office (Honduras Trading Company);
• Ministry of Food (cohune nuts for the UK);
• Imperial Institute (henequen and cohune fibres);
• Director of the Colonial Audit (annual report 1915 to 1916 and 1916 to 1917);
• Royal Colonial Institute (property of H J Cramer);

• W E Allison (transfer application);
• Burchells (Honduras Trading Company);
• O Browne (medical appointment);
• Barclay's Bank (Honduras Trading Company);
• Mr Carlisle (mahogany);
• Charles Denny (Honduras Trading Company, Riversdale Estates purchase by the colonial government);
• S Dobree & Sons (Honduras Trading Company);
• Gush Phillips Walters & Williams (Honduras Trading Company);
• Sir W Grey-Wilson (pension);
• S J Hood (prospecting for minerals);
• D Masson (application for land concession) [not included in volume];
• R Starkey (mahogany for the Admiralty, despatch of documents in Colonial Office bag, permit to export tractors to the colony);
• J A Sabido (separation allowance increase);
• H W Teed (cohune nut industry);
• John Verity (colonial employment request).

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