Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)...

Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning Trinidad during 1906. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Emigration Agent at Calcutta (agency expenses and requisition by Port Commissioners, pension of Emigration Agent and Assistant, gratuities to officers of migrant ships, conveyance of indentured labourers, agency premises);
• Crown Agents (labourers recruited in Madras, fruit contract, floating dock concession, migrant ship Indus, Public Works Loan £300,000, Messrs Thompson and Hunter, supply of cement, loan legislation, supply of coin for circulation in the West Indies, local supply of articles for government, security to be given by emigration agents, investments on behalf of Currency Commission);
• House of Commons (unemployment in the colony);
• Board of Trade (wireless telegraphy with Venezuela);
• Treasury (forfeiture of pension on conviction of recipient, note issue of Bank of Nova Scotia, government note issue and the reduction of the coin reserve, extensive use of money orders.

Miscellaneous:

• Trinidad Shipping Company (Caroni River drainage and damage done by recent floods);
• General Post Office (wireless telegraphy between Trinidad and Tobago, extensive use of money orders);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (fruit trade);
• Trinidad Working Men's Association (Port of Spain Municipal Charter);
• Colonial Office (petroleum in Trinidad, oilfields of Trinidad);
• New Colonial Company Limited (Brussels Sugar Convention);
• Lloyds of London (wireless telegraph stations at Trinidad and Tobago);
• London Chamber of Commerce (Venezuelan surtax);
• Trinidad Dock and Engineering Company (prospectus offering £75,000 company debentures);
• British Museum Natural History (freshwater fish of Trinidad, use of British Museum to the colonies);
• West India Committee (indentured labourer repatriation fund);
• Board of Education (E H Cunningham Craig).

Individuals:

• P Carmody (pension);
• E H Cunningham Craig (employment as Government Geologist);
• H Deighton (pension in respect of twelve years service as Head Master of the Queen's Royal College);
• Earl Dundonald (search licence for minerals);
• Dr J A Wolf (Surgeon at the Colonial Hospital);
• G Eccles (Stipendiary Magistrate and Warden of Cedros);
• Frame and Company (confiscation of shipment of wine);
• Murray T Gow (customs fine on shipment of Cleo margarine);
• Helen Gordon and Lilian Blake (complaint against the Venezuelan Consul);
• J W Gordon (Asphalt Industry Ordinance);
• R P Gibbs (Emigration Agency premises at Calcutta and its amalgamation, new premises for the emigration depot, acquisition of agency premises by the Port Commissioner);
• E Grell (Trinidad floating dock);
• Murray T Guthrie (Government Director of the Trinidad Dock and Engineering Company Limited);
• H B James (A W Laverack pension);
• Sir H M Jackson (mineral search licence for Lord Dundonald, Professor Carmody, E H Cunningham Craig, floating dock concession, savings bank frauds at Princes Town, puisne judge, frauds by T M Williamson and the liability of Mr Norman, petroleum licence for R Rust, successor to E H Cunningham Craig, gratuities to migrant ships officers, constabulary establishment, general manager of the government railway, Windward Islands Court of Appeal, extension of the electric tramway);
• Professor H Louis (oilfields report);
• C C F Monkton (wireless telegraphy between Trinidad and Tobago);
• Sir A Moloney (confidential and secret despatches, missing despatches);
• R H McCarthy (customs fine on certain shipments of margarine);
• Macandrew Wright and Murray (oil concession to Earl of Dundonald, Ashpalt Industry Regulations Ordinance 1906);
• McLeod and Rose (case of F J McLeod);
• Sir E A Northcote (Windward Islands Court of Appeal);
• O Phillips MP (local steamer service);
• R M Routledge (resignation);
• Rattan Singh (return to India);
• A D Russell (appointment of puisne judge);
• J B D Sellier (administration of justice);
• W E Smith (appointment to the Gold Coast);
• Thompson and Hunter (investigation of oil bearing lands, application for oil concessions with maps);
• William George Vogan (submits application for pension);
• Reverend R A Watson (case of Dr Doyle);
• Samuel E Waldron (title to certain lands).

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