Correspondence received from individuals on subjects concerning Trinidad during 1914....

Correspondence received from individuals on subjects concerning Trinidad during 1914. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Arbuthnot, Latham and Company (shipment of sugar);
• J Banks (treatment of his wife and himself in Trinidad);
• Major H E J Brake (re-employment in the Colonial Service);
• Professor Cadman (protection of the asphalt industry, excise duty on petroleum, visit to Trinidad, productivity of Trinidad oilfields [with map], acquisition of oil bearing land by Messrs Pearson, draft Asphalt Ordinance, pipe line agreement on government railway, negotiations with Messrs Pearson, laying of pipe lines, grants of Crown Lands);
• C G H Campbell (appointment as Ankylostomiasis Officer);
• Professor Carmody (St Augustine and River Estates);
• M E Coombs (enlistment);
• J M Dougan (loss of $10 in registered letter);
• Colonel J R Dodd (appointment as Ankylostomiasis Officer);
• A Duckham (Trinidad Central Oilfields Limited);
• C de Verteuil (German Cocoa properties);
• Theodore Einstein (erection of theatre by Town Board);
• Frame and Company (shipment of molasses from Trinidad to Amsterdam);
• G E E Guppy (invention for improving road paving, his position in the service);
• Lord Glenconner (oil prospecting);
• W W Hooper (Manager of Trinidad and Tobago Institute);
• W Horsfall (claim for compensation);
• A E Hunter (death of Dr Gilfellau);
• Harris, Chelham and Cohen (business of Mr Solomon Dreyfus);
• Lindsay Blee and Company (pipe lines agreement);
• A M Low (post of Inspector of Schools, Ceylon);
• C A Littlepage (appointment as Senior Landing Waiter);
• A Maury (purchase of stamps);
• R H McCarthy (defalcations in the Customs Department, proposed Excise Duty on petroleum);
• Lord Murray of Elibank (negotiations with Pearson and Son);
• T W Peterson and Company (consignments of sporting guns);
• Mrs J E Price (re-grant of forfeited property);
• J Pointer MP (Leper Asylum and Port of Spain municipality);
• S Pearson and Son, Lord Murray (oil operations, preferential rights over certain oil areas, application for oil prospecting rights);
• R Rutherford (froghopper pest);
• A W Roberts (Mora Forest);
• Rhys Roberts and Company (Mora Forest);
• Lieutenant Colonel J D Swain (Captain Bentley);
• J Simpson (leave of Mr J D Miller);
• J E Sealy (pension);
• J M Stuart (tax on estate carts);
• Miss M Simmons (store owned by her in Port of Spain);
• Cyrus Timothy (regarding reduction in pension);
• R Warner (Excise Duty on oil).

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