Letters from the War Office, miscellaneous government offices, and individuals relating...

CO 137/729

1918

Letters from the War Office, miscellaneous government offices, and individuals relating to despatches sent from Governor Probyn in 1918. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

War Office: expenses contingent; case of Mr E W Dunn, formerly second lieutenant, Northumberland Fusiliers, Special Reserve; General Blackden, family's passports; strikes in Vere; silver war badges; militia artillery; payments to discharged British West Indies Regiment.

Miscellaneous Offices:

• West India Committee (cocoa licenses; 1917 rum crop);
• Colonial Office (return to Jamaica Mrs Thomson; fish poisoning; rights of Direct West India Cable Company; labour situation);
• Education Department, Wakefield (application from Mr A Bury);
• Custom House (duty on gift sugar, prisoner of war in Germany; rum storage, plans enclosed);
• Ministry of Labour (allowance for dependents of Mr P Service);
• Direct West India Cable Company (commercial wireless and telegraph traffic Bowden, Kingston, Nassau, Belize and Jamaica, Bahamas, British Honduras; wireless operations, Kingston);
• Prisoner of War Department (inspection of camps in Jamaica; prisoners held at Tripoli; Norwegian consul's visit to German prison);
• Overseas Club (estate of late S Morrison);
• General Post Office (parcel post, Jamaica and Panama; commercial wireless and telegraph traffic Jamaica, Nassau, Belize);
• Ministry of Shipping (steam communication, Jamaica and Canada);
• Ministry of Pensions (pension L Moodie);
• Board of Agriculture & Fisheries (import of dogs; bee disease);
• Regimental Paymaster, London (L Moodie);
• Emigration Agent, Madras (his war services);
• Foreign Trade Department (German coat of arms as cigar brand; trading with black-listed firms; interests of Atlas Steamship line in pier);
• British Empire Producers' Organisation (Brussels sugar convention);
• International Health Board (trichocephalus infection);
• Urban District Council of Gainsborough (repatriation of D Russell);
• West India Contingent Committee (case of 2nd Lieutenant H B Sturridge);
• Tropical Diseases Bureau (report of government bacteriologist);
• Ministry of Munitions (rum imports);
• Charity Organisation Society (information regarding S Morris);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (salary J J Phillips).

• W B Ascoli (interview);
• D G Archer (colonial appointment);
• L E Ashenheim (government scholarship);
• K D Andrews (colonial employment, East Africa);
• C E H Beard (colonial employment; pay; conditions of employment);
• Dr Bagshawe (report on hookworm, Cayman Islands);
• S Burke (deduction of child allowance; payment of salary);
• Captain W Beresford (promotion);
• A G Curphey (medical appointment);
• E W Dunn (dismissal);
• S Dobree & Sons (estate of Braham & Sons);
• C W Doorly (appointment in Straits Labour Department);
• H G Downer (assisted passage);
• E A de Pass (disposal of 1919 sugar crop);
• Captain C R Edwards (colonial appointment);
• J Francis (minerals of Jamaica);
• Miss G Hay (alleged miscarriages of justice in Westmoreland);
• F Hill (colonial appointment, Africa);
• W I Isaacs (colonial appointment);
• S T Inskip (late Dr Ker);
• H M King (financial recompense);
• Lt Col A Kershaw (pension);
• Mrs E Ker (widow's pension);
• H Knight (clothes and packet money);
• F Leyland & Co (rum storage; cargo space & freight rates);
• J D Lucie-Smith (appointment in German colony; repatriation on demobilisation);
• L Moodie (disability pension);
• Sir W Mercer (liability for military service of Mr McCulloch);
• W McCulloch (liability for military service);
• A L Millar (colonial appointment);
• W Negus (power of attorney applicable to troops);
• Sir Sidney Olivier (schoolmistress, Hampton School);
• J Oldfield (complaints of Miss Hay);
• Lt Colonel C Ogilvie (colonial appointment);
• Mrs H Rivett (allowance);
• Mrs M Rock (support from her husband);
• F L Roper (colonial appointment);
• D Russell (assistance);
• W A Sutton (re-employment);
• Tootal Broadhurst Lee Company Ltd (Syrian F Farah naturalised in Jamaica);
• W Taylor (re-employment);
• G B Tomlinson (transfer);
• J A Williams (relief).

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