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Correspondence from individuals on matters relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and...
Catalogue reference: CO 295/489
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This record is about the Correspondence from individuals on matters relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and... dating from 1913 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 295/489
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Date (When the record was created)
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1913
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence from individuals on matters relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:
- Broad and Company, Solicitors (survey fees, Trinidad Cedros Oil Company);
- A W Betts (lease of Trinidad Oilfields Company);
- Professor John Cadman (tapping of oil, Trinidad Oilfields Company);
- Trinidad Petroleum Development Company (Anglo-Scottish Investment Corporation, reorganisation of the Mines Department, carriage and storage of petroleum, provision of storage for oil, draft Ordinance to regulate Asphalt Industry of Trinidad);
- Thomas Cochrane (lease of Trinidad Oilfields Company);
- Mr G C Druce (land concession to Mr T H Leach);
- Lionel Earle ('coloured' doctors);
- Fellowes and Company (Mora Forest);
- Mrs Grace Mann-Giuseppi (pension of Dr Giuseppi);
- Goodlet, Fairbairn and Berry (pipeline monopoly);
- C A Grenfell (coal for Trinidad and Jamaica Government Railways);
- Sir William Haldane (bamboo pulp);
- W Horsfall (compensation claim);
- Esme Howard ('coloured' doctors in Tobago);
- Mrs Caroline L Huggins (allowances from husband);
- Lord Murray (oil investigations);
- Sir Reginald MacLeod (United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate);
- Colonel R S Marshall (appointment as Commissioner of Prisons in Scotland);
- J F H Morgan (passage agreement);
- Thomas Nelson and Sons (bamboo pulp);
- Pakeman, Son and Read, Solicitors (cancellation of licences to Mrs Mary Bernstein and R P Mackenzie);
- J Pointer MP (Port of Spain Municipality, conduct of the Government's Surveyor, working hours of railway workmen, affairs of Trinidad);
- Dr Nathan Raw (tuberculosis conference);
- Mr R Rutherford (froghopper pest investigation);
- Sir Boverton Redwood (provision for oil storage);
- Mr A W Roberts (Mora Forest);
- Mr R A Swan (pension);
- Thompson and Hunter (Pitch Lake concession);
- Cecil Wall (tuberculosis conference);
- Mr H P Walcott (appointment of Financial Commissioner for Lagos and Southern Nigeria);
- Mr E Blackwood Wright (appointment as Puisne Judge).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C987937/
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CO 295
Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence
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