Letters from miscellaneous government offices (departments), other organisations...

Letters from miscellaneous government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Miscellaneous offices:

• Direct West India Cable Co. (wireless station, Turks Island; subsidy; West Indies stations);
• General Post Office (service by Atlantic Fruit Co.; Turks wireless station);
• Local Government Board (rat plague);
• Colonial Office (Sister Adelaide's Nursing Hostel; Chinese immigration; appointment colonial secretary; sinking fund; secret & confidential despatches for governor; shipment of US gold);
• Criminal Investigation Department (complaint of Mrs Brown);
• Canadian Pacific Railway Co. (Chinese immigration; Poll Tax on Chinese);
• Halifax and Bermuda Cable Co. (wireless station, Turks Island);
• British Museum (wild birds protection);
• Company for Wireless Telegraphs (wireless, Cartagena & Bowden);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (carriage of stores Orotava; Atlas Line Wharf, Kingston);
• London Joint Stock Bank Ltd. (silver shortage);
• Belgian Refugee and Hampshire House Refugee Committees (H Allwood and family);
• West Indies & Panama Telegraph Co. (Turks wireless station);
• Royal Commission on Sugar Supply (sugar gifts);
• Pattinson's Banana Fruit Co. (sanitary fluid conveyance);
• Tootal Broadhurst Lee Co. (Mr F Farah asked to register as alien);
• Prisoners of War Information Bureau (parcel, prisoner in Jamaica);
• Customs House (cigarettes for troops);
• Canadian Pacific Railway Co. (poll tax on Chinese);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (US-West Indies service);
• Board of Agriculture (poisoning of fish)

Individuals:

• Sir W R Anson (claim of Mr Hoare);
• R Allen (request for assistance);
• E Ascoli (import duty);
• L J Brown (London Fine Art Co.);
• C Benjamin (imprisonment Panama);
• H W Boker (appointment as surveyor; course);
• J T Burrell (imprisonment at Colon);
• Major Bryan (appointment as colonial secretary);
• B E Burrell (case of J T Burrell);
• S Crank (pension; allowance);
• S A G Cox (case of E F H Cox);
• J Campbell (complaint);
• E F H Cox (dismissal);
• J H Desvaux de Marigruy (recruiting of Indian labourers);
• Druces & Atlee (tramway appeal);
• S & Sons Dobree (estate of R B Bracham);
• E A de Pass (Vere Estates Co.);
• W A Domingo (rubber export);
• Elders & Fyffes, Ltd. (pier and wharf, Kingston; Atlas wharf);
• R A Evans (reemployment as teacher);
• J Francis (imprisonment Nicaragua);
• R J Fraser (passport application);
• J A German ((imprisonment Nicaragua);
• Hopkins, Ford, Lee & Co. (power of attorney);
• A E Husband (petition to Parliament);
• A H Hoare (employment);
• T & J Harrison (quarantine);
• D Jackson (pension);
• T Kisch (estate purchase by German);
• Dr A Macdonald (appointment in sanitary administration; Kingston water supply);
• R E Noble (appointment as resident magistrate);
• Sir Sydney Olivier (Hay v Olivier; Dr Macdonald; Malaria reclamation; internment of O Janzen);
• D W Ogilvie (artillery device);
• J H Paterson (resignation);
• T R Robertson (interview request);
• Rubinstain, Nash & Co. (Janoure Estates);
• Rev W H Scotter (appointment of son);
• J A Soulette (Shop Assistant's Law);
• F C Tomlinson (libel against Jamaica newspaper);
• C C Taylor (reemployment in Police);
• S Viddal (interview request)

Topics

Refugees

Art, architecture and design

Government finances

Internment

International

Labour

Railways

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Radio and television

Nursing

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Resources

Disease

Food and drink

Museums and galleries

Crime

Americas