Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)...

Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:

• Admiralty (trigonometrical survey by HMS Mutine);
• Crown Agents (loan, H H Mymms and his application for a silk grass concession, disability pension of J A Sabido, issue of loan);
• Foreign Office (ill-treatment of Captain Victor Gavilan of the British Schooner Maria Teresa, 'Between Two Continents' by HRH Prince of Sweden and letter of complain from S Wolffsohn, charges for visas);
• Medical Adviser (F F P Smartt);
• Board of Trade (liquor smuggling into the United States);
• War Office (civil disturbances in British Honduras and Trinidad in 1919 and the cost of troops employed).

• Seaman's Hospital (expedition to British Honduras);
• Colonial Office (F F P Smartt, visit of Colonial Office official to British Honduras, J N Oliphant appointment);
• Department of Trade (introduction of sericulture into British Honduras);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (introduction of sericulture into British Honduras);
• Colonial Audit Department (annual abstract account for 1921-22).

• Arghan Company Limited (silk grass concession);
• R Cutting (application for a colonial medical appointment);
• H Dunk (application for a transfer to another colony);
• W L McKinstry (pension);
• H H Mymms (concession for the cultivation of silk grass);
• W P O'Neill (development of the colony and the construction of the railway, map enclosed).

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