Letters from 'offices' (Governmental departments and other organisations) on matters...

CO 137/752

1921

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

• Admiralty (visit of USS Shawmut to Kingston, J Tucker's compensation claim, oil fuel installation at Kingston, experimental radio station, visit of HMS Wisteria);
• Crown Agents (shed foreman, currency notes, civil disturbances, Kingston harbour improvements, hydro-electric supply for Kingston, safety appliances on Jamaican railway, loan, cement works, Miss H M McLeod's conditions of employment, inscribed stock law amendment, Turks and Caicos postage stamps, debenture law amendment, refund of advance to J A Howard, proposed central sugar factory, reduction of temporary increase in pensions, railway commission, Chief Clerk in Railway Locomotive Department, foreman borer, complaint of Miss McLeod, general loan of inscribed stock law, Ordinance no 13, gratuity of C Raper, recovery of advance to J A Howard);
• Foreign Office (H Bowerbank's complaint, case of F E Stapenhorst, passport and visas to Egyptian subjects, labour situation in Cuba, amendment of Turks and Caicos Islands customs laws, immigrant 'girls' in Cuba, national status and passport application of W H Furstenburg, exemption of certain shipping from tonnage and light duties);
• Home Office (memorial of R Southgate, matron of female prison, importation of tincture of opium);
• Medical Advisers: (Constable E C Dumphy's medical report);
• Board of Trade (water power, pilotage law, loan to sugar planters, J A Williams' compensation claims, duty exemptions for Canadian Government vessels, oil fuel installation at Kingston);
• Treasury (pension of E P Chamberlin, pension of L R O'Hanlon);
• War Office (Regimental band of Jamaica, prisoners of war, Government employees in Volunteer Force);
• Imperial Institute (preservation of railway sleepers, pimento leaf oil);
• Scottish Educational Department (grant to A L Millar);
• General Post Office (telephone and telegraph linesman, letters to postmaster of Turks and Caicos Islands, private wireless stations, complaint of H Cooke, money order sent to Grand Turk Island);
• Imperial Stamp Company (complaint against postmaster in Grand Turk);
• West India Committee ('Americanisation' of Jamaica);
• Air Ministry (US airships);
• Board of Customs (ad valorem duties);
• Bucks County Education Committee (T C Jerrom's application);
• Colonial Office (complaint against the administration of the lunatic asylum, local financial conditions);
• Imperial Resources Bureau (geological survey);
• Government Actuary (old age pension scheme);
• Board of Education (pension of secondary school teachers, education grant to Major C G Peet);
• Ministry of Transport (control of Government railway);
• Procurator General (claim of L Winkler and Sons);
• Law Society (personnel of Judicial and Legal departments of colony);
• Civil Service Commission (salaries of civil servants and Government officials);
• Inland Revenue (income tax amendment law);
• Jamaica Imperial Association (state of affairs in Jamaica);
• Institute of Women Suffrage Alliance (immigrant 'girls' in Cuba);
• Customs House (exports of spirits from the UK);
• Petroleum Department (oil fuel installation at Kingston).

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Topics

Internment

International

Manufacturing

Labour

Mental illness

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Transport management

Caribbean

Air Force

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Children

Debt

Food and drink

Nationality

Navy

Votes for women