Correspondence received from the Home Office, India Office, Medical Adviser, Board...

Correspondence received from the Home Office, India Office, Medical Adviser, Board of Trade and War Office during 1916, together with correspondence from miscellaneous Government Departments and other organisations sent during the period January to June 1916 (and continued in CO 295/510)

Home Office:

• Naturalisation certificates: fees to be charges;
• Boris Savof, prisoner of war;
• Permit to purchase opium;
• Nationality of Mr Ludwig Otto Schoener Arrindell [with stamped and sealed copy of certificate of British naturalisation and other enclosures]

India Office:

• Application of certain Indians for repatriation to India;
• Lightning conductors on oil tanks;
• Indian sedition: alleged seditious activities of Waryam Singh, Harnam Singh and two others;
• Application of Lieutenant W St Clair Thwaites for employment in the medical service

Medical Adviser, C W Davies:

• Colonel R S Marshall considered unfit for service in the tropics;
• Mr E C O'Brien considered temporarily unfit and should be placed on temporary pension or given leave prior to further examination;

Board of Trade:

• Merchant Shipping Bill;
• Angostura Bitters: not within scope of current import prohibitions;
• Asphalt for Holland;
• Suggested amendment of Merchant Shipping Ordinance;
• Damage to Government steamer;
• Import of Angostura Bitters will require licence; views of Governor requested;
• Liquidation of enemy companies;
• Business of Mr Hugo Hoffman, an enemy alien;
• Is prepared to grant licences for importation of Angosture Bitters

War Office

• Temporary commission for acting Company Sergeant Major E Lawrence not at present recommended;
• Retention of rank and uniform of Colonel G D Swain cannot be granted;
• Prisoner of war Boris Savof: not prepared to send him to this country should he be embarked on the Magdalena as she is going to Egypt;
• Indian sedition: report on various individuals in Trinidad;
• Neglected condition of German prisoner;
• No objection to request by Major W Grieg to wear uniform;
• Reasons why visa for Mr Oluf Mayland was refused;
• No objection to employment of Colonel W C Anderson as deputy Inspector General of Constabulary

Miscellaneous Offices and other organisations:

• Law Society (requests meeting to discuss objections to Solicitors' Ordinance; observations on Solicitors Ordinance No. 46 of 1914; Colonial Solicitors Act 1900);
• Colonial Office (desirability of placing German companies in Venezuela on a black list [with various enclosures]; enquiries concerning German nationals; minutes and telegrams concerning the visit of the United States Secretary of the Treasury to Trinidad);
• Trade Clearing House (property owned by Germans in colony);
• Foreign Trade Department (trading with the enemy: business of Messrs Blohm [with rough sketch map of Venezuela and surrounding area]; black list for Ciudad Bolivar; trading with Messrs Pietrantone & Company; suspected firms in Venezuela; despatch from Washington stating that there is no objection to including the Kali-Syndikat in list of companies with which trading is prohibited; detained goods for Venezuela; Venezuela black list; statutory list for Venezuela; shipments to Messrs Blohm; possible financial assistance for Santana Hermanos & Company as possible rival to Messrs Blohm);
• Owners of Estates (war export tax);
• Inland Revenue (overpayment of land taxes by Mr H H Tucker; imposition of income tax);
• Angostura Bitters Limited (import of Angostura Bitters);
• British Red Cross Society (application of Mr S T Yves De Verteuil as volunteer motor ambulance driver);
• West Indian Contigent Committee (case of Mr S G Rawlins, stated to be 'too dark' to hold a commission in the Army);
• Trinidad Leaseholds Limited (financial position of company [with report of the directors and balance sheet for the period ended 30 June 1915, offprint from the Financial Times concerning the company, and report of the directors of the Central Mining & Investment Corporation Limited of 31 December 1915);
• Holloway Sanatorium (arrangements for medical examination of Mr Arthur H Baker);
• War Trade Intelligence Department (goods for J E Sanchez of Ciudad Bolivar)

Topics

Shipping

Clothing

Internment

International

Labour

Army

Taxation

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Maps and plans

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Treason and rebellion

Nationality

Crime

Americas

Middle East

Banking

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)