Letters from miscellaneous organisations and individuals most of which relate to...

Letters from miscellaneous organisations and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/497 - CO 295/501. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Miscellaneous Organisations:

• Colonial Office (financial situation, Second Lieutenant M E Coombs, F E Meyer, advances to officials given leave to enlist);
• Custom House (importation of molasses into the UK);
• Trinidad Estates Co (financial situation, excess profits tax);
• Trinidad Estates Ltd (financial situation);
• Law Society (Solicitors Ordinance);
• Bishop of Trinidad (treatment of Dr Clare);
• London School of Tropical Medicine (present position of the school);
• Ste Madeleine Sugar Co. Ltd (sugar: supply of local needs);
• The West Indian Copra & Produce Estates Ltd (mortgage on an estate in Tobago);
• Trinidad Chamber of Commerce (appointment of Bonar Law as Secretary of State, appointment of a new governor);
• Kew Gardens (curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens);
• Central Mining & Investment Corporation (Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd);
• General Post Office (error in governor's telegram of 27 July, examinations in radiotelegraphy);
• Local Government Board (ordinance relating to public health);
• French Consul General (trade in feathers via Trinidad);
• British Museum (protection of wild birds);
• War Trade Department (asphalt for Holland, sugar & molasses for Holland);
• International Health Commission (report on the treatment and control of uncinariasis [ancylostomiasis] for 1914-1915).

Individuals:

• A Balfour (Mr Urick);
• Burne & Wykes (conditions of Mr Packer's appointment);
• A S Bowen (draft for merchants' contingent);
• Prof Cadman (Trinidad Central Oilfields Ltd, oil boring regulations, agrees with response to the United Petroleum Syndicate application for exploration license extension, professional employment in addition to government work, report on grants of Crown Lands, permission for prospecting licensees to 'work oil', oil: sliding scale for minimum royalty);
• Captain E S W Carr (draft for contingent);
• Solomon Dreyfus (his business in Trinidad);
• Sir J A Dewar (closing down of enemy firms);
• Z Sydney de Bourg (Sir G Le Huute's administration);
• H T Edwards (case of P Scheerer [not included in volume]);
• W H Eccles (contributions to W & O & guarantee funds);
• James W Eakin (application for re-appointment as medical officer);
• Foot, Rowland G & Co (plant purchased from German firm and shipped to Trinidad);
• W Farrell (liquidation of enemy firms);
• Lord Gleneornner (financial situation, sugar proprietors' petition protesting against new taxation);
• Murray T Gow (preferential tariff, duty charged on split peas);
• P Lechmere Guppy (froghopper investigation report, extension of leave, his position in the service);
• S B B Hammond, Lieutenant (reduction in colonial allowance, allowances from Trinidad and Army funds);
• Henckell Du Buisson & Co (prohibition of export of sugar, retention of a portion of the sugar crop);
• G F Huggins (Merchants' Contingent);
• Mrs Law (Colonial Office minutes concerning her 'native' maid);
• G A K Marshall (froghopper investigation);
• Scott Murray (application for balance of salary);
• Alexander Allan Marshall (pay during military service);
• Sir D Morris (froghopper investigation report with observations);
• Previté & Co (transport of asphalt, asphalt for Switzerland and Holland);
• Ernest Phillips (appointment of a new governor: petition from the Orange Lodge at Trinidad protesting against the possibility of Sir Hugh Clifford being appointed because he was a Roman Catholic);
• Dr S P Proctor (his resignation);
• A W Roberts (request to lease 20,000 acres of Mora Forest for 99 years);
• R Rutherford (export tax on sugar: encloses the 'proceedings at deputation from proprietors of sugar estates in Trinidad to the Secretary of State for the Colonies 22 October 1915');
• Miss Marion Simmonds (her store in Port of Spain, loss of her tenant);
• James Sladden (petition concerning his retirement);
• W Barradell Smith (application for statistical clerk and librarian, Colonial Secretary's Office);
• Francis A Simmons (employment on railway).

Topics

Conveyancing

International

Litigation

Labour

Railways

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Religions

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Crown lands and estates

Food and drink

Museums and galleries

Banking

Communications

Farming

Medicine

Operations, battles and campaigns