Correspondence received from Offices (Government Departments and other organisations)...

Correspondence received from Offices (Government Departments and other organisations) on subjects concerning Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (patenting wireless receiving arrangements, Oil Mining Ordinance, oil refineries, lease to British and Foreign General Securities and Investment Trust, compensation for emergency action in war, United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate, oil fuel for naval requirements, destruction of oil in emergency);
• Foreign Office (arms for Venezuela, ex President Castro, detention of the M C Holm and its officers, shipment of arms to the West Indies and notification, Venezuela suspects in Colombia imprisonment of Robert Brown, Venezuela surtax, extradition of two fugitive criminals, parcel post agreement with Venezuela, extradition of Tomas Guerras and Eugenio Sardo, extradition agreement with Venezuela, repeal of Venezuelan Extradition Ordinance);
• Home Office (the return of ticket of leave convicts);
• India Office (labour recruiting in Surat district, Burma Oil Company pipe line rules);
• Medical Adviser (Dr P E H Giuseppi);
• House of Commons (labour conditions on Tabaquite Railway Works, sentences imposed by B Wright, Venezuelan surtax, reciprocity with Canada, indebtedness of Port of Spain local board, financial conditions of St Augustine Estate);
• Treasury (note issue, issue of $1000 notes);
• War Office (Salvarsan for syphilis, Non Commissioned Officer for appointment as Sergeant Instructor, cavalry instructor to local forces, Sergeant G N Curry).

Miscellaneous:

• General Post Office (patent of wireless receiving arrangement, charge for telegrams to Tobago, use of wireless in the event of interruption of cables, wireless stations);
• New Colonial Company (Cipero Tramway and Ordinance);
• Colonial Office (loan, revolutionary pamphlets against Venezuela, oil concession to Pearson Limited, froghopper investigations, case of Cyprian Robinson);
• Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa (options on oil concessions, extension of licences);
• Board of Agriculture (Plant Protection Ordinance);
• Angostura Bitters (refund of import duties);
• The Colonial Nursing Association (nurses for Port of Spain Hospital);
• Port of London Authority (rat guard [with photographs]);
• Civil Service Commission (examination for Sub Inspectors of Police);
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (dysentery in Tobago, malaria among immigrants);
• Local Government Board (Quarantine Ordinance, use of sulphur dioxide);
• Central Mining and Investment Company (general petroleum properties of Trinidad);
• Anglo Maikop Corporation (lease held by certain syndicates);
• London School of Tropical Medicine (dysentery in Tobago, malaria, pass certificates for J L Pawan, H C Swertz and W E Roberts);
• British Museum [Natural History] (protection of birds);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (lodging allowances for officers under training);
• Royal Humane Society (rescue from drowning);
• Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society (case of Cyprian Robinson).

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