Offices and individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments),...

Offices and individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Board of Trade (H W Hixon's application to prospect for oil on the Cayman Islands, four items concerning the establishment of a lighthouse at Morant Cays, the Jamaican Marine Board, the provision of adequate life boat accommodation, the establishment of fuel oil installation, provision of life boat accommodation for vessels carrying Indian immigrants, application of United Fruit Company for permission to erect an oil bunkering installation at Kingston)
• Treasury (Appointment of H E Dale to advise on financial policy, bonuses for locally engaged civilian employees of the War Department)
• War Office (provision of lands required for military purposes, the Package Tax Law of 1919)
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Arghan Fibre [enclosed Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, November 1922])
• Colonial Office (appointment of W S Birch as Senior Assistant Medical Officer at Jamaican Mental Hospital, the appointment of V L Furguson as Third Resident Medical Officer at the Public Hospital Kingston)
• General Post Office (transfer of wireless telegraph station to the Marconi Company)
• Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (foot and mouth disease, observations on the origin of foot and mouth disease, observations of S Stockman on foot and mouth documents, visit of H E Dale to advise on financial policy)
• Government Actuary's Department (grant-in-aid annuity fund)
• Ministry of Health (street improvements in Kingston, notification of outbreaks of diseases)
• Inspector General's Office, Royal Ulster Constabulary (appointment of Staff Sergeant Major to Jamaican Constabulary, application of S V Higgins for post of Staff Sergeant Major in the Constabulary Department)
• Board of Education (vacancies in the technical and continuation school, Kingston)
• Imperial Institute (radioactivity of water from Milk River Bath)
• Trade Facilities Act Advisory Committee (banana industry)
• Imperial Communications Committee (two items concerning proposals by Marconi's for wireless telegraph station)
• Association of Teachers of Domestic Subjects (termination of appointment of Miss H McLeod as instructress at the Technical School Kingston, suggesting date for sending deputation to discuss the case of Miss McLeod)
• Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company (operation of wireless telegraph station by Marconi)
• Direct West Indian Cable Company Limited (equipment of wireless telegraph stations at Bermuda and Jamaica).

Individuals:

• Duke of Atholl (central sugar factory)
• Viscount Burnham (banana cultivation and transport to UK)
• E St John Branch (pension from the Leeward Islands)
• P C Dewhurst (his resignation, a request that outstanding allowances be favourably considered)
• E T Dixon (American propaganda)
• H E Dale (enquiring into the finances of the colony, the establishment of a central sugar factory, the reserve fund of the Government Savings Bank, recommendation of the Constant Spring Hotel, quarterly statements of unusual charges, advances from colonial funds, amendment of the appropriation law)
• C P Huggins (pension in respect of service in Jamaica)
• Lord Invernairn (development of the sugar industry [including chart of Port Morant area])
• Miss H M McLeod (termination of services)
• Marchant, Hewington, and Jibber and Dommetto (resignation of dentists)
• R Noble (his magisterial decisions)
• L O'Donoghue (his pension for service with Royal Irish Constabulary)
• L Probyn (switches and crossings for government railway)
• W H Puckridge (pension of the late C Renwick)
• H E Phillips (appointment as commissioner and judge of the Turks and Caicos Islands)
• R Roberts (sale of postage stamps, child welfare stamps)
• Bernard Senior (enquiring into financial policy)
• Simons and Company Limited (transport of bananas from Jamaica to UK, steamship service with the UK, banana scheme)
• A Shaw (supply of sanitary goods by Kingston and St Andrew Corporation)
• P Urquhart (informs of his acceptance of temporary employment in Scotland)
• Whitfield Kind and Company (request information about child welfare stamps)
• Willie Guild and Ballantine (states that Jamaican Sugar Syndicate is considering establishing a sugar factory in St Thomas and asks for the abolition of the super tax).

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