Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and organisations) and individuals...

Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and organisations) and individuals on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

• Home Office (Veare's confession of murder);
• Medical Advisor (Mr D Jackson; Mr S Crank; Mr L R O'Hanlon);
• House of Commons (provision of hospital beds; contagious diseases; appeal case dismissed);
• Board of Trade (Turks, registry of shipping; Law 12, 1913, copyright);
• Treasury (loan of £50,000);
• War Office (part closure of Matthews Lane, Kingston; perpheral neurilis; experimental licences for wireless telegraphy; passage of successor to Lieutenant Langley);

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Universal Radio Syndicate Ltd (wireless telegraph station);
• London School of Tropical Medicine (reception of students from Jamaica);
• Colonial Office (yellow fever; examination sub inspector Police; Assistant Bishop; vomiting sickness; destitute Jamaicans);
• General Post Office (wireless telegraph stations; experimental licences);
• British Museum (Turks & Caicos: wild birds);
• Direct West India Cable Company (wireless installation);
• Archbishop of West Indies (US duty bananas);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (railway connection with wharves);
• Queen's Private Secretary (Jamaica's economic condition);
• Archbishop of Canterbury (Assistant Bishop);
• Civil Service Commission (examination sub inspector Police);
• Board of Education (Miss S M Vidal; participation of teachers in politics);
• Land Registry (additional surveyor);
• Custom House (coasting trade);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (training sub-inspectors);
• Local Government Board (public health, Kingston);

Individuals:

• C Benjamin (complaint against Railway Company, Panama);
• W Barnett (attempt on his life);
• Mrs Barclay (application for assistance);
• S Crank (retirement; pension; return to colony);
• S Couper (appointment as director of government railway);
• Dr Cox (Mr L O'Hanlon);
• W Douglas (banana trade);
• J Farmer (abduction of daughter);
• Miss Fitch (portrait of Sir E Cook);
• E Glanville (post of director of government railway);
• Marquis of Huntley (property of West India Cold Storage Co);
• A Hoare (agricultural and botanical appointment);
• Archbishop of West Indies (US duty, bananas);
• D Jackson (retirement; pension);
• J Kirshmann (claim against Nicaraguan government);
• H M King (police dress);
• R M Livesey (general manager of government railway);
• Sir W Manning (appointment as governor; British West Indians in Central America);
• Dr Macdonald (malarial conditions, Kingston);
• Sir Sydney Olivier (memorial Mr Nosworthy; US duty, bananas; Hay v Olivier);
• R Pearson (appointment of director of public works);
• J Pointer (Temple Lane closure, Kingston);
• H Rutherford (pecuniary assistance);
• C Russell & Co (The West India Executive Company);
• R F Russell (appointment as supernumerary medical officer);
• E Smith (assistant bacteriologist);
• Sutton, Ommanney & Rendall (Olivier v Hay);
• G E Valentine (passage; deduction from scholarship allowance);
• Wainwright, Pollock & Company (West Caicos: transfer of leases of land, supply of labour, port of entry);
• A Wynter (distressed person);
• Mrs Willoughby (death of Mr P Willoughby);
• Wontner & Sons (Hay v Olivier).

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