Letters from government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals...

Letters from government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to the despatches sent from the governor in 1917. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Foreign Office: (registration of Chinese in Jamaica; restrictions on foreign banks in US; deportation of suspects to UK; Miss Hay's complaint; French import restrictions and goods of British colonial origin; French duties on Jamaican products);
• Home Office (expulsion of Cuban alien Armand De Lemar); naturalisation of Mr Chamberlain; opium for West Indies);
• India Office (Postal War Tax Turks and Caymans);
• Law Officers Department (Military Service Law, 1917);
• Parliament: House of Commons (Praedial Larceny Law);
• Board of Trade (freight rates between UK and Jamaica; prohibition of rum imports; consignment of lace marked 'made in Germany'; re-export of goods marked 'made in Germany'; funds for repatriation Ali Mahomed, Herbert Lewis, T Sexton, G Hollar; freight for bananas from Jamaica; import of bananas; Enemy Trade Marks Vesting Law);
• Treasury (sale of business of Wessels & Nephew to Grace Brothers; restrictions on business of foreign banks; War contributions; export of British goods to Canada);
• War Office: (Surgeon Captain Neish unfit; Lance Corporal Morgan's pension; J Geoghegan's application for further employment; offer of services Mr Briscoe; staff officers to local forces; medical examination of intending emigrants; application for pay increase WO clerks; proposed message of sympathy).

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Shipping Control Committee (freight rates UK and Jamaica);
• War Trade Department (wood export to US; exports to US);
• The Colonial Nursing Association (recommendation matron, Public Hospital, Kingston);
• Colonial Office (compulsory service in West Indies; import of fruit into UK; distressed Jamaican D Russell; prisoner of war Vely Bey);
• Foreign Trade Department (treatment of goods in transit; black-listed firm Messrs Davies Turner & Company Limited; intercepted letters);
• Imperial Bureau of Entomology (pineapple weevil);
• Lord Chancellor's Department (transfer application Mr Noble);
• War Trade Intelligence Department (transit letter A5600);
• Ministry of Shipping (requisitioning of Donald Line ships);
• Humanitarian League (flogging for praedial larceny);
• Imperial Institute (Cayman Islands, sisal hemp);
• Royal Free Hospital (death of W Couch);
• Sugar Commission (appointment of Agent in Jamaica);
• Local Government Board (venereal disease);
• General Post Office (Bowden wireless station communication with Nassau and Belize).

Individuals:

• Alves Bain (resolution of loyalty, anniversary of war outbreak);
• D G Archer (application, special assistance);
• D Brown (accident to J H Brown);
• S Burke (application, chief justice Bermuda);
• R Cartright (accepts appointment, matron);
• F Clarke (contributions, pension fund);
• G D' Costa (travel restrictions);
• C Doorly (application, colonial administrative appointment);
• A Ellis (trade restrictions, West India);
• C Fursdon (Jamaica labour, war work);
• Grace Brothers & Company (purchase of business, Wessels & Nephew);
• G Hay (complaint against resident magistrate);
• A Husband (grant to start company, sugar industry, union of West Indies with Canada);
• Bishop of Limerick (Dr T Orpen);
• C MacFarlane (claim for cash and goods seized by Turks in Tripoli);
• I McIntyre (pension of gratuity on discharge from British West Indies Regiment);
• J W Nixon (increased pay, guards officers Kingston Customs);
• R S Noble (Central Sugar Factory);
• H Nicholas (resignation);
• Sir Sydney Olivier (services of Mr H Cousins declined; praedial larceny);
• Dr R Russell (application for colonial employment);
• R Ripley (application, inspector Jamaica Constabulary);
• R Russell (application, colonial medical appointment);
• Dr Rendle (botanical work in Jamaica);
• A Robinson (local industries, Cayman Islands);
• R Stewart (assistance);
• R Walker (return to Jamaica);
• G Watson (assistance for mother);
• Captain Waters (application, inspector Jamaica Constabulary).

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