Letters from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) relating...

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

• Admiralty (case of R Camberon; interned Turkish subject Vely Bey; Lieutenant Owen, acting harbour master; appointment of Commander Calthrop; flagship visit to Jamaica; wartime services rendered to Navy);
• Crown Agents (W R Knight further employment; railway material for American expeditionary force in France; requisition for currency notes; R Simpson, application for oil commission; Sir W Manning salary; formulation of a hydro elective system; ten shilling postage stamp; Treasury notes for Turks Island; stamp designs; electrification of Government Railway);
• Foreign Office (J Williams, losses in Russia; Costa Rican revolt; consulate at Colon; discharged West Indian soldiers; remittance of Syrians; prisoner Vely Bey; ill-treatment of Jamaicans at Cuba; shooting of British subjects at Jacobo and Elia; Mrs Weymouth, permission to travel; trade mark 'Ron Jamaica'; establishment of consulate at La Ceiba; light on Morant Cays; ill-treatment of Jamaicans at Ecuador; visa applications; Costa Rican president departed for Jamaica; Hearst publications in Jamaica; Mrs Weyranch, maintenance in Germany; political situation Costa Rica; James Samuel-Kings pardon; J Reynolds claim against German government);
• Home Office (liquor sale; principle warder, Jamaica Prison Services; damage to property of 'coloured' men during 'riots'; pension of C Andrews; wardens Miller, Southgate, Chamberlain);
• India Office (Mr Doorly; appointment of surveyor general);
• Medical Advisors (Dr Neish; G P McGrath; Commander Calthrop);
• Board of Trade (import of rum and pimento; import of coffee into UK; Law 2, 1919, lighthouses at Cayman Islands; shipment of rum from Jamaica; repatriation of Charles Lewis; registration of 'Ron Jamaica'; case of seaman T Savis; 'coloured' seaman T Stirling);
• Treasury (purchase of UK notes; Mr Louis Wessels, Wessels & Nephew; imperial pension C Andrews; Savings Association of Royal Sussex Regiment; issue of colonial government currency notes);
• War Office (war bonus for colonial officials; garrison; staff officer to local forces; change of appointment Lieutenant Austin; Vely Bey; confidential report requested on Major H Durant; recommends Lieutenant W Taylor; enquiry into E A Nembard; white troops for Jamaica; requests retention of Captain Cooke; requests information about Captain W Goldsworthy; services to Navy by certain officers; repatriation of E Phillips and E Shaw);

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Tropical Diseases Bureau (Cayman Islands disease conditions);
• Colonial Office (assistance for L S Gray; seamen Galvin & Chambers; leave Mr Doorly; sugar export);
• War Trade Department (export of goods to Switzerland);
• London County Council (storage of rum);
• Geological Survey & Museum (mineral survey);
• Board of Customs (age of rum on sale to public);
• Prisoners of War Department (passport Mrs Weyranch);
• Royal Botanical Gardens (post of surveyor general);
• Carrington House (C MacFarlane);
• West India Cable Company (Jamaica Law 16, 1898, Law 29, 1899; disorder at Kingston);
• Dominion Securities Company Ltd (Jamaica loan, public works);
• Ministry of Shipping (freight rates to UK);
• Lindsay, Swan and Hunter (post of harbour master);
• Liquor Traffic Board (control of intoxicating liquor);
• Ministry of Reconstruction (offences against Defence of the Realm Regulations);
• Canada Life Assurance Company (Income Tax Bill);
• Central Prisoners of War Committee (C MacFarlane);
• West India Committee (banana and shipping situation);
• Nottingham Poor Law Officers (repatriation D Russell and family);
• General Post Office (postmaster Turks Island);
• Federation of British Industries (electrification of railway);
• The Life Offices' Association (tax on insurance premiums);
• Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (fish catching and curing);
• The Society of Peoples of African Origin, signed by Chairman E Taylor (suggests person 'of colour' be included in Royal Commission to Jamaica & outlines some social and economic conditions in Jamaica for the Commission's consideration);
• British Museum (Jamaican flora);
• Director of Intelligence (police report E M Hercules);
• Prisoner of War Department (repatriation of German civilians to USA);
• Petroleum Executive (exploration for oil; geological survey);
• National Union of Teachers (Royal Commission);
• Colonial Bank (unrest in Jamaica);
• Ministry of Labour (repatriation of James Gillespie);
• Kew Gardens (appointment in British Guiana);
• Inland Revenue (introduction of income tax; Income Tax Law; death duties);
• Ministry of Pensions (Captain W Neish; Mrs Kemble gratuity);
• Royal Irish Constabulary Office (vacancies for staff sergeant majors; Jamaica Constabulary withdrawal of RIC candidates; allowance of sergeants);
• Capital Issues Department (Globe Oilfields Ltd);
• Naval Intelligence (unrest in Jamaica);
• Imperial Communications Committee (telephone service, Jamaica, USA, Cuba);
• General Council of the Bar (conduct of legal business position of barristers);
• Bishop of Jamaica (British West Indies Regiment members repatriation).

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