Correspondence, on matters relating to Jamaica, from 'miscellaneous offices' (Government...

Correspondence, on matters relating to Jamaica, from 'miscellaneous offices' (Government departments and other organisations) sent during the second half of 1921, together with correspondence from individuals sent during the year. Correspondence and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Dr L M Moody's report on Alastrim);
• Colonial Office (appointment of D T Rainsford, appointment of Medical Officer in Kingston, geologist C A Matley, appointment of H S K Ryan);
• General Post Office (experimental wireless station, complaint against Postmaster);
• Civil Service Commission (grant of salaries);
• Trinity House (erection of a light at Portland Point);
• Government Actuary (old age pension scheme);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (Constabulary appointments);
• Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau (boring plant);
• Yorkshire Dyeware and Chemical Company (anti-malaria measures);
• Asiatic Petroleum Company (oil fuel installation);
• Ministry of Pensions (Asylum treatment for Private W Taylor);
• Law Society (Legal and Judicial Departments);
• Board of Inland Revenue (income tax);
• Department of Overseas Trade (manufacture of cement);
• Imperial Institute (sericulture in Jamaica);
• Petroleum Department (oil fuel installation).

Individuals:

• Andrews, Sons and Huxtable (death of Dr T F Shackleton);
• P Arscott (post of Island Treasurer, unemployment problem);
• Dr H E Bond (grant in aid);
• E H J Branch (grant in aid);
• H Cooke (complaint against Imperial Post Office);
• Sir R Waley Cohen (oil fuel installation);
• Samuel Dobree and Sons (estate of R B Braham and Sons);
• C V Espent (appointment as Director of Public Works);
• H A Lewis Hall (appointment as Surveyor General);
• J A Howard (re-employment, submits representation in his case);
• J Hetherington (non-delivery of parcels);
• F Harwood (Deputy Island Chemist);
• H M King (claim for loss of effects);
• L Kein (national status of Mrs Nettie Wessels and Miss Hilda Wessels);
• John Courtenay Knollys (application for promotion);
• S D List (banana trade with Canada);
• Charles C B Moss (Jenoure Estate);
• John E McPherson and Sons (spirits imported into Jamaica);
• A L Millar (Government grant);
• C A Matley (appointment as geologist);
• R E Noble (transfer);
• L R O'Hanlon (pensionable service);
• J H W Park (salary);
• Dr J H Paterson (medical appointment);
• Sir Leslie Probyn (use of American copy books, prisoners of war);
• J Parkinson (artificial silk manufacture);
• J H Phillipps (law enabling companies to purchase lands);
• J L Pietersz (payment for passages);
• Mrs Roots (transfer of Neville Roots);
• S A Richards (petition);
• Madame Soulignac (sale of postage stamps);
• R Southgate (payment of travelling expenses, pension payments, grant in aid);
• Mr Smith (Legislative Council);
• P W Saufster (railway extension);
• Mr Stephens (judgeship in British Honduras);
• James Thomas (repatriation);
• W L Thomas (increase in Police Force);
• W D Tyndall (F Miller's claim);
• A S Westmorland (appointment of District Medical Officer);
• Windeatt and Windeatt (the Will of Miss Ella Constance Bower Bower);
• Sir R Williams (socio-economic conditions in Jamaica);
• A E Young (appointment as Attorney General, service in Jamaica, re-employment).

Topics

Clothing

Internment

International

Manufacturing

Labour

Mental illness

Railways

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Radio and television

Caribbean

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Policing

Resources

Ireland

Construction industries

Disease

Americas

Communications