Correspondence received from Miscellaneous Offices (Government Departments and other...

Correspondence received from Miscellaneous Offices (Government Departments and other organisations) on subjects concerning Trinidad received during the period July to December 1916, together with correspondence from individuals received during 1916.

Miscellaneous Offices:

• War Trade Department (coconuts for the United States of America; cinematograph films, sound recordings and photographic plates etc.; asphalt to Holland);
• War Trade Intelligence Department (interception concerning case of Mr P Scheerer; enquiry concerning Messrs Kleinwort Sons & Company; letter from Adolf Wessblad, New York, to Bruno Kassmann, Stockholm);
• Foreign Trade Department (Messrs Brahm & Company of Lima; detained goods for Venezuela; Statutory Black List for Venezuela; British trade in Venezuela);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (withdrawal of coastal steamer);
• Portsmouth Mental Hospital (condition of Mr A H Baker);
• Colonial Nursing Association (recommends Miss Catherine Jones for appointment as charge nurse at the Colonial Hospital, Port of Spain);
• Trinidad Shipping & Trading Company Limited (wish to dispose of shares held by Mr H Hoffmann);
• Colonial Office (export of cedar to Holland);
• Prisoners of War Department (report from United States Ambassador on internment camp at Port of Spain [with copy of letter from 68 named internees complaining of conditions]; report on camp at St James)

Individuals:

• Mr W F Bolton (applying for re-employment);
• Mr A G Bell, Ministry of Munitions (importance of increasing stocks of lubricating oil, fuel oil for the Admiralty);
• Mrs E W Baker (health of Major A H Baker, her husband's pension);
• Mr Bhole and others, Indian residents of Trinidad (petitions relating to their destitute condition forwarded through the West India Committee);
• Professor J Cadman (prospecting licence to Trinidad Oilfields Limited, United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate; suggested meeting to discuss licences and leases to be attended by a representative of the Admiralty, lightning conductors on oil storage tanks);
• Mr Albert J Clarke (his recall from military service, return to colony, informs of marriage, application for leave prior to return);
• Mr A E de Pass & Company (shipment of cedar to Netherlands Oversea Trust Company);
• Miss Margaret T Flood, former matron at Trinidad Lunatic Asylum (requests Government post);
• Mr Clifton Flanagin (application for employment);
• Major W Greig (application for permission to wear uniform);
• Mr Walter Harragin (application for post of Stipendiary Magistrate at Princes Town);
• Mr J B Humphrey (price of sugar cane [with copy of letter from Mr A R C Humphrey and petition from the Permanent Committee of Representatives of Cane Farmers of Trinidad and Tobago]);
• Heygate & James, solicitors (pension allowable to Arthur H Baker should he continue unfit);
• Mr W T Harragin (application for transfer);
• Sir George Ruthven LeHunte, Governor of Trinidad (appreciation of services tendered by colonial officials in connection with the war);
• Lade & Company (asks if certificates of origin are still required for the entry of Danish butter into Trinidad);
• Thomas Nelson & Sons (proposed lease of land [with plan of area of 1000 acres in Aricagua and St Joseph wards]);
• Mr E C O'Brien (application for post of Clerk of the Peace at San Fernando);
• Preece, Cardew, Snell & Rider, consulting engineers (wireless stations at Trinidad and British Guiana);
• Mr Walter H Page (sends reports of the International Health Commission's work on uncinariasis in Trinidad, Costa Rica, southern United States, Grenada, Guatemala, Panama and Egypt [reports not in volume]);
• Mr C M S Pollard (asks if he is exempt from compulsory military service);
• Previté & Company (seeks assistance in securing exemption from compulsory service for Mr F C Previté who is essential to maintenance of business; shipments of asphalt to Holland);
• Prices Patent Candle Company Limited (enquiry about liquidation of Paul H Scheerer & Company of Port of Spain);
• S Pearson & Son (development of oil industry; acceptance of Admiralty requirements; lease of oil fields);
• Mr L Preece (wireless station at Port of Spain);
• Mr J R W Piggott, prisoner of war in Germany (enquires about whereabouts of his father Robert Williams);
• Sir R W Perks (application for his company to work on harbour improvements);
• Miss Maud Raybourne (affiliation claim against Dr Frank Mahabir; further letter agreeing to allowance suggested by Dr Mahibir but seeking arrears);
• Mr R Rutherford (froghopper investigation);
• Mr S G Rawlins (complains about treatment received concerning his application for a commission);
• Mr J Sladden (complains that no reply has been received to his petition concerning his dismissal and asks for appointment to vacancy of Chief Ward Officer at Scarborough);
• Mr Moise Saieh (facilities to leave Bordeaux for Trinidad);
• Mr P R E Smith, Heygate & James (enquiry about Arthur H Baker's salary, arrears of pay, etc.);
• Mr E R Vignale (exemption from compulsory military service);
• Captain J W Wilson (application for post of deputy Inspector General of Constabulary);
• C M & C Woodhouse (states details which should be supplied when cocoa properties are offered for sale)

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