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Reports need for markets for diamonds and balata, or government assistance for industries,...
Catalogue reference: CO 111/596/47
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This record is about the Reports need for markets for diamonds and balata, or government assistance for industries,... dating from 1914 Sep 23 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 111/596/47
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914 Sep 23
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Reports need for markets for diamonds and balata, or government assistance for industries, to avert possibility of 'serious trouble'. Asks Colonial Office to 'ascertain from Triefus 4 Holborn Viaduct percentage amount per carat set up in their valuation table(s) used by Royal Bank of Canada it is safe to advance on British Guiana diamonds'. A Colonial Office official enquires, 'who is Triefus? a pure bred Saxon or an Alien Enemy?'; enquiry is subsequently made to the Home Office who report the naturalisation as British citizens of Edward Triefus and Simon Triefus. Unnumbered telegram, folios 292-309
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 36504/1914
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara, and...
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Reports need for markets for diamonds and balata, or government assistance for industries,...