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Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)...
Catalogue reference: CO 123/322
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This record is about the Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)... dating from 1925 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: British Honduras, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 123/322
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1925
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:
- Crown Agents (crude oil engineers at the Belize Electric Light and Ice Company, pipe water supply for Belize proposal, pensioners resident in the United Kingdom, proposal to appoint a buying agent, proposed loan);
- Foreign Office (emigration of 'negroes' to Honduras, oil exploration in British Honduras and Guatemala);
- Treasury (pension of H Bowdedge);
- War Office (trigonometrical survey).
- Colonial Office (appointment of Mr N S Stevenson the Assistant Conservator of Forests, appointment of Mr T Patterson the Assistant Medical Officer, appointment of Major J E Hoar as Assistant Medical Officer, expedition of Mr Mitchell Hedges and the exclusive right to take photographs);
- Inland Revenue (income tax);
- British Museum (expedition of Mr Mitchell-Hedges, protection of fisheries, Maya site).
- T J Harrison (Governor's baggage held up in Southampton);
- J N Oliphant (Assistant Conservator of Forests, forest officers);
- J N Sabido (grant to establish poultry farms, educational grant for his son).
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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/C3608444/
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CO 123
Colonial Office and predecessors: British Honduras, Original Correspondence
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