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

Letters from miscellaneous government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to the despatches sent from the governor in 1916. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• West Indies Chemical Works (Logwood extract);
• Colonial Bank (Gold shipment; government account);
• Master Dyers and Finishers' Association (Logwood);
• Dublin Chamber of Commerce (Logwood);
• Imperial Institute (Consignment of opium);
• Board of Education (Assistant teacher, Shortwood Training College);
• War Trade Department (Logwood extract; export of Gusgo peas; rum export to Denmark; rum for Holland; export of hay to Panama Canal zone);
• Imperial Bureau of Entomology (Black Weevil Borer of bananas; Histerid beetles; charges against A H Ritchie);
• National Union of Teachers (Appointment of Director of Education);
• Sugar Commission (Jamaica sugar; export to France of sugar refined in USA);
• Patent Office (Letters patent to C Schon & P O Pedersen);
• National Health Insurance Commission (Health insurance stamps);
• Foreign Trade Department (United Fruit Company; International Hides and Skins Company; payment to Messrs Altamont Dolphy);
• West India Committee (Import of foreign bananas into UK);
• West India Contingent Committee (Enlistment of Police in British West Indies Regiment);
• Ministry of Munitions (Labour from Jamaica for UK);
• Colonial Nursing Association (Miss Whittingham).

Individuals:

• Sergt Major Adams (NCO for local defence forces);
• Altamont Dolphy (Claim against International Hide & Skin Company);
• Brownbill & Company (Logwood);
• Professor Bower (Mr A H Ritchie);
• S F Binns (Post in East Africa; application for colonial employment);
• J J Cruchley (Exemption from compulsory military service);
• T C Campbell (Alleged ill-treatment by colonial authorities);
• Lieutenant Charter (Application for appointment in colonial police service);
• Dr Catto (Reconsideration of appointment of assistant bacteriologist);
• E A de Pass & Company (Coffee for Bergen; goods from German Schwarzburg);
• E R B Denniss (Director of Education);
• Elders & Fyffes Ltd (Banana trade);
• Dr J L H Ellerton (Pension Mrs Mullen);
• Freshfields Ltd (License fees on shipments of goatskins);
• Dr J Geoghegan ('Tuberculosis from a West Indian Standpoint');
• J Gloseter Ltd (Messrs J H Milke & Co);
• Grace Brothers & Company (Proposed purchase of business of Wessels & Nephew);
• H G Jackson (Leave extension);
• Landrieux & Company (French duty on Jamaica rum);
• Dr C A Lopez (Liability to military service);
• R Matheson (Mr A H Ritchie);
• G A K Marshall (Mr A H Ritchie);
• Dr W D Neish (Senior medical officer, Public Hospital);
• J W Nixon (Customs officers' pay);
• Sir Sydney Olivier (Application for promotion J D Lucie-Smith);
• M H Pattinston (Freight charges);
• Dr H H Scott (Vomiting Sickness);
• F C Tomlinson (case of Rex v Brown);
• Lieutenant Thomas (Reappointment to Jamaica Constabulary);
• Mrs M A Treleaven (Pension application);
• Miss Whittingham (Resignation);
• G Yule & Company (Logwood).

Topics

Canals and river transport

International

Labour

Army

Trade and commerce

Nursing

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Disease

Food and drink

Americas

Education

Medicine

Operations, battles and campaigns

Africa