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

CO 137/764

1922

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

• Home Office (import of opium, case of C Anthony, import of opium for 1921, import and export of drugs, E H Bell's certificate of naturalisation, A Issa's certificate of naturalisation);
• Medical Adviser (medical report on Dr Bernard C W Pasco, medical report on R E Noble, medical report on A M Thomas);
• Parliament (cost of living report, garrison numbers, pay and allowances for penitentiary staff, Bill to prevent publication of incorrect reports, complaints against Government policy);
• Board of Trade (application of Mrs L Lee for assistance, transportation of prisoners of war to Canada, lighthouse at Morant cays, treatment of certain Jamaicans by the captain of the USS Middlebury, imposition of landing tax, Canadian-West Indian trade agreement, claim of John Alexander Daley, lubricating oils tariff, harbour fees and light dues exemption law);
• Treasury (prisoners of war sent to Canada, duties on British spirits, estate of late G Strebel);
• War Office (Lieutenant M H Giles, C Raper formerly of British West Indies Regiment);
• Trade Facilities Act Advisory Committee (central sugar factory);
• Colonial Office (railway report, appointment of C G Hansford as a microbiologist, distressed seaman E Mattick, railway extension, Young Women's Christian Association hostel);
• Imperial Shipping Committee (exemption of certain shipping from dues, Kingston harbour improvements);
• Department of Overseas Trade (cement manufacture, appointment of G R Stevens as Canadian Trade Commissioner);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (Patrick Coolican's appointment, course for L O'Donoghue, appointment of Staff Sergeant Major Joseph Murphy);
• Law Society (final and intermediate exams);
• Ropeways Ltd (light railway and aerial ropeway, aerial ropeway at Gayle);
• Seamen's Society, Liverpool (distressed seaman Cecil Graham);
• Imperial Institute (vanillin manufacture);
• Seamen's Mission (Timothy James);
• General Post Office (irregular use of wireless apparatus, child welfare scheme, war savings certificates bought by men of British West Indies Regiment);
• International Health Board (Hookworm disease in Jamaica);
• Church Lads Brigade (purchase of guns);
• Imperial War Graves Commission (classification of graves);
• Air Ministry (Second Lieutenant Harry Hinson Hutchins);
• Federation of British Industries (development of railways);
• Asiatic Petroleum Company (oil fuel installation);
• Trinity House (light at Portland Point);
• British and Foreign Sailors Society (repatriation of seamen);
• Ministry of Health (child welfare);
• Cement Marketing Company (duty on imported cement);
• West India Committee (repatriation of Henrietta Granston, application for repatriation from Frederick Norcott Salmon);
• Jamaica Imperial Association (sanitary condition of Kingston);
• Wirral Union (maintenance of family of seaman C A Smart);
• British Museum (monograph on flora of Jamaica);
• Ministry of Agriculture (shipment of dogs to Jamaica);
• Jamaica Law Society (salary and appointment of Chief Justice).

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