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

CO 295/495

1914

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

Offices:

• Council Office (right of appeal to Her Majesty in Council, Colonial Solicitors Act 1900);
• Foreign Office (claim of Mr Brown against Venezuela, Soldiers Rock, alleged conspiracy against Venezuela, General Hernandez, visit of Princess Marie Louise, ex-President Castro, Venezuelan revolutionaries, export of arms to Venezuela, consignment of arms to Venezuela from Belgium, Venezuela surtax on imports from Trinidad, claim of R Brown against Venezuela, visit of Princess Marie Louise to Ciudad Bolivar and La Guaira, political situation in Venezuela, relations between Venezuela and British West Indies, export of arms to Venezuela, sporting guns for Venezuela, detention of cypher messages to Venezuela, report on anaemia in Porto Rico, consignment of cocoa for Genoa, enemy aliens);
• Home Office (custody of 'lunatics', naturalisation of C A Booz and F Booz);
• Medical Adviser Daniels (Colonel J R Dodd);
• Medical Adviser Prout (Mr A Rigby);
• Medical Adviser Murdoch (Dr Gilfillan);
• House of Commons (post of Protector of Immigrants, proposed lease of Valsayn Estate, Port of Spain Municipality Ordinance);
• Board of Trade (Companies Ordinance, permission to use code word in cables);
• War Office (Staff Officer of the Local Forces Captain J Bradstock, Sergeant Instructor of the Local Forces, Lieutenant L H G Andrews of the Local Forces, Lieutenant R H Walsh Staff Officer of the Local Forces, enemy aliens, courts martial).

Miscellaneous:

• General Post Office (wireless communication with Dutch Guiana, wireless communication with Trinidad and British Guiana and Paramaribo and Curacao, postal service regulations);
• Custom House (Draft Spirits and Spirits Compounds Ordinance);
• Law Society (Solicitors Ordinance);
• Royal Bank of Canada (note issue);
• United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate (construction of certain roads);
• Archbishop of the Port of Spain and Bishop of Trinidad (Chief Inspector of Schools);
• Customs House (excise duty on petroleum);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (consignment of cartridges);
• Scottish Office (Colonial Solicitors Act 1900);
• Law Society of Ireland (Colonial Solicitors Act 1900);
• Trinidad Leaseholders Limited (pipeline);
• Board of Education (post of Assistant Master);
• Scottish Office (Colonial Solicitors Act 1900);
• West India and Panama Telegraph Company (wireless station, wireless with British Guiana);
• Royal Commission on Sugar Supplies (sugar);
• Trinidad Central Oilfields (export of oil, surrender of lands);
• Sugar Estates Proprietors (tax on light carts);
• Portsmouth Mental Hospital (extension of leave of Dr R C Bennett);
• Trinidad Electric Company (licensing of vehicles);
• West India Committee (contributions to the National Relief Fund).

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