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 (armoured motor launch, mahogany, Major K Elphinstone's bonus, wireless communication, photographs of wireless telegraph cables, Belize riots, mahogany claims against Mr Vernon, colony's affairs, movements of HMS Constance and Cambrian);
• Crown Agents (proposed loan for the government, W E Allison's war bonus, Police and military duties during riots, Blue Book 1917);
• Council Office (Extradition Ordinance 1919);
• Foreign Office (war expenditure, extradition with Guatemala and Mexico, situation in Mexico, Yucatan Indians, conditions in Quintana Roo territory, revolutionary movement against Honduras, activities of J L Rogers, visit of Prince William of Sweden);
• India Office (loan of Indian forest officer);
• Treasury (conversion of armoured launch);
• War Office (Colonel Cowie's claim, Belize riots, British infantry for West Atlantic ports);
• Honduras Trading Company (agreement with the company);
• Local Government Board (memorandum on the prevention of influenza);
• Belize Estate Produce Company (Belize Electric Light Company Plant);
• Bishop of British Honduras (educational system);
• General Post Office (parcel post for Canada and the US via the US, restrictions on the issue of money orders);
• Petroleum Executive (exploration for oil);
• Natural Metal and Chemical Bank Limited (phosphate deposits);
• Colonial Office (Chief Justice Sir R Roden's pension);
• The Overseas Nursing Association (matron Miss L Roberts);
• Kew Gardens (prospect of an expert report on forests);
• Imperial Institute (samples of supposed phosphatic rock);

• Burchells (draft Ordinance for Honduras Trading Company loan);
• Miss Flora Hart Bennett (contribution to Belize hospital);
• C W Cassell (reinstatement in the colonial service);
• H D Curry (services as private secretary to the governor, payment of salary pending departure);
• L H Elphinstone (Honduras Trading Company loan Ordinance, leave extension application, services as local director of Admiralty contracts);
• J W Evans (geological and mineral survey);
• R H Furness (promotion application, leave on demobilization, appointment of registrar general in Trinidad, colonial appointment);
• Thomas Gann (plantation labour);
• Charles F T Goff (position of government service on German Influenza);
• R H Johnston, Major (travelling expenses to the UK);
• Walter Llewellyn Lewis (temporary increase of pension);
• F B Mildmay, Lieutenant Colonel (R Wyatt's promotion claim);
• Sir F Maxwell (pension, Belize riots);
• M Murphy (appointment as acting director of public works, proposed new works in British Honduras, increase of salary, new works in Belize, H S Whttaker's travelling);
• C Melhabo (Belize riots);
• H J Perkins (retirement);
• Preece Cardew Snell & Rider (Belize wireless station);
• J Stanley Rae (call to the bar, promotion application);
• Sir Robert Roden (salary payment, leave);
• Keith M B Simon, Captain (appointment as assistant medical officer);
• R Starkey (mining laws and leases);
• A R Tayelor (repatriation to Mexico);
• Sir Francis Watts (agricultural development, W R Dunlop's visit);
• H S Whittaker (promotion application);
• R Walker (transfer application).

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