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

Catalogue reference: CO 295/471

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This record is about the Correspondence from miscellaneous 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)... dating from 1911 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference

CO 295/471

Date

1911

Description

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

  • Trinidad Oilfields Limited (oil refineries, oil mining companies operating in Trinidad, transfer of rights);
  • The British Cotton Growing Association (grant to Mr J Thornton, experimental work by Mr J Thornton);
  • General Post Office (money order service with Mexico, mail service and quarantine);
  • Royal Irish Constabulary (vacancy for Detective Sub-Inspector);
  • London School of Tropical Medicine (malaria among immigrants, fees of Dr Procter, refund of Dr Procter's fees, free courses of instruction);
  • Asylums Committee (vacancy for male Head Attendants);
  • Local Government Board (Ordinance 17 of 1910, Medical Department Commission of Enquiry, smallpox cases on the Tennyson, visit of a plague expert);
  • Committee of Imperial Defence (oil industry);
  • Trinity College, Dublin (case of Dr Clare);
  • Board of Customs (Spirits and Spirit Compound Ordinance);
  • Colonial Office (oil mining companies operating in Trinidad, finance of Indian immigration);
  • Trinidad Cedros Oil Company (Pipe Line Ordinance);
  • General Petrol Proprietors of Trinidad (transfer of concession);
  • Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa (oil concessions and licences, options over concessions, leases for oil concessions);
  • Estate Duty Office (Estate Duty Ordinance);
  • New Colonial Company Limited (Ciphero tramway);
  • Tenants Estates Limited (Cipher tramways).

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The National Archives, Kew
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Subjects
Topics
International
Taxation
Migration
Caribbean
Oil and gas
Ireland
Disease
Sewerage
Americas
Communications
Medicine
Mining and quarrying
Africa
Local Government
Record URL
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CO 295

Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence

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