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Rosehall riots: reports that Messrs Booker Brother McConnell and Company Limited,...

Catalogue reference: CO 111/594/62

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This record is about the Rosehall riots: reports that Messrs Booker Brother McConnell and Company Limited,... dating from 1914 June 12 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara, and.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 111/594/62
Date
1914 June 12
Description

Rosehall riots: reports that Messrs Booker Brother McConnell and Company Limited, agents of the estate, have refused to cover expenses incurred by the police. Asks for advice and information about practice elsewhere, and states that the riot was caused by 'injudicious action on the part of the management'. With copies of official minutes and note of a meeting between the government secretary and attorney general, and Mr Arthur McConnell and his legal adviser.

Walter Egerton, Governor of British Guiana, No. 210, folios 486-496

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
24611/1914
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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