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

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

• Foreign Office (claims against the Venezuelan Government, Venezuelan affairs and 30% surtax, Mr Sanberson's claim against the Venezuelan Government, movements of ex-President Castro, telegraph rates between Trinidad and Venezuela, Venezuelan surtax on wines, complaint of William Gilbert for alleged ill-treatment by the Venezuelan Customs authorities, claim of Mrs de Merlin against Venezuela, free import into Colombia of certain Venezuelan products, complaint of Robert Brown against the Venezuelan Government, Venezuelan coastal steamship service, United States quarantine regulations, proposed bank issue, claim of Mrs Bourgeois, against the Venezuelan Government, centenary of Venezuelan independence); Inland Revenue (succession duty on certain leases of Crown Lands);
• The New Colonial Company Limited (sugar cultivation, Cipero tramway, Cipero tramway conference);
• Board of Customs (Customs tariff);
• General Post Office (mail service and plague, Post Office Ordinance, parcel post with French Guiana);
• Kew Gardens (appointment of an Acting Curator);
• Estate Duty Office (Estate Duty Ordinance 1909);
• Customs Office (spirit duties);
• Colonial Office (Immigration Ordinance, oil concessions, oil industry);
• British and Foreign Oil and Rubber Trust (oil concessions at Mayoro);
• Tennants Estate Limited (Cipero tramroad);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (Officer in charge of the Detective Department);
• The Royal Bank of Canada (note issue security, circulation notes in Trinidad);
• Croydon Charitable Society (case of the destitute 'natives' Randah and Victor Vignale).

Topics

Shipping

International

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Oil and gas

Race relations

Ireland

Crown lands and estates

Food and drink

Banking

Communications