Letters from the War Office, miscellaneous offices (departments), other organisations...

Letters from the War Office, miscellaneous offices (departments), other organisations and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/511 - CO 295/513. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Departments) and other organizations:

• War Office (reports on suspected Indian 'seditionists' , naval dispositions in the West Indies, Quarter Master Sergeant H Casey, sergeant instructor of local forces, court martial of Second Lieutenant L Abrams, return of L Abrams to the colony, recovery of sums due from Second Lieutenant M E Coombs, Huttlinger & Struller);
• Foreign Trade Department (S L August & Co, goods for firms on statutory list, trading with Huttlinger & Struller, English syndicate to compete with Blohm & Co, Council of Foreign Bondholders in Venezuela, Mexican dollars obtained from Zimmerman & Forshay, General Trading Co Ltd of Copenhagen, claim against Vicente Knierim Schussler of Venezuela);
• War Trade Intelligence Department (enemy trade marks, British and German trade in Venezuela);
• The Central Mining & Investment Corporation Limited (Trinidad Leaseholds Limited);
• Prisoners of War Information Bureau (statement of prisoner of war Gustav Tegge);
• Prisoners of War Department (complaints regarding the treatment of interned German prisoners of war, application to return home for German prisoner of war Hugo Tietz [not included in volume], German internment camp report);
• Trinidad Central Oilfields (National Refiner Co, mortgage of certain properties in Trinidad);
• Dredner Bank (Mr Neubauer's interest in the Trinidad Properties Ltd, sale of cocoa estates);
• Colonial Office (Dr H S Hartley's application for appoint, shipping combined questions, sale of enemy properties catalogue);
• Commissioner for Canada (War Contribution Tax Ordinance);
• Colonial Survey Committee (trigonometrical survey memorandum);
• Ministry of Shipping (importation of non-essentials);
• Inter-Departmental Committee on Petroleum Products (acquisition of an oil-field by a Norwegian Company);
• British Museum (scientific examination of Kitchen-midden);
• Customs & Excise (Professor Patrick Carmody's pension);
• Inland Revenue (oil and beer exemption from duties);
• Customs House (Ordinances dealing with imposition of duties on oil and beer);
• General Medical Council (position of medical men possessing American or Canadian qualifications in the UK);
• Colonial Office (memorandum of a froghopper conference);

• Louis L Abrams (return to duty);
• George Stanfiel Best (application for employment as sanitary inspector or sub-inspector of Police in West or East Africa);
• Burchells (enemy cocoa estates);
• Captain H F Blood (service in RAMC);
• Professor John Cadman (reorganisation of the Mines Department, model old prospecting licence and lease, drilling obligations under the United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate lease, exemption of certain petroleum products from excise duties);
• Mrs M A Carmody (asks to be released from the Lunatic Asylum, forwards a letter for transmission to her husband);
• Professor Patrick Carmody (retirement, pension);
• Dr Henry L Clare (affect of money received for war work on his pension);
• Captain J R Dickson (applies for the post of chief medical officer of heath and surgeon general);
• Thomas Lionel Dunn (enlistment in colonial service rifles, promotion application);
• H Engleson Fenwick (requests refund of widow and orphans fund contributions);
• Frame & Co (enemy cocoa estates, sale of enemy properties);
• Walter Farrell (claim against F A Neubauer);
• Mrs Grace M Giuseppe (requests employment for her physician husband);
• R C Gooden-Chisholm (inspectorship of Police);
• Captain S B B Hammond (his future in the colonial service);
• Major F Hall (reports on Indians and others suspected of sedition);
• Frederick Huth & Co (Wessels Brothers & Von Gontard Ltd interest and commission claim);
• Walter T Hawkes & Co (censorship of the correspondence of Carranza Rae & Salazar Ltd);
• Jenkinson Brinsley & Jenkinson (enemy properties, enemy cocoa estates catalogue) [printed for use of the Colonial Office Miscellaneous No 325, see CO 885/25/5];
• Bede Jarrett MP (passport application for Catholic Priest Rev H Koos who was born in England of a German father);
• G E Lange (protest against seniority claim of Mr Power);
• John B Murray (gift of land to the British Government);
• McMeekin & Co (sale of enemy cocoa estates);
• George A K Marshall, Director of The Imperial Bureau of Entomology (froghopper investigation);
• Norton Rose Barrington & Co (assignment of an oil lease, Norske Petroleum Skilder i Trinidad);
• R E Phipps (guarantee for a loan to enable him to proceed to West Africa);
• Lieutenant L Prada (applies for post of inspector of Police);
• Thomas Prentice (passport for Trinidad Estates Co Ltd engineer);
• Previté & Co (Trinidad bitumen);
• Ashmon Russan (sale of enemy cocoa estates);
• R Rutherford (froghopper investigation);
• Colonel G D Swain (offers services);
• Scott (Neubauer & Company cocoa estate mortgages);
• A Beeby Thompson (acquisition of land by an American firm);
• H H van der Plas (Netherlands subjects travelling to Trinidad);
• Richard Walker (petition for a gratuity or compassionate allowance);
• Walsh Wrightson (widows and orphans fund contributions);
• L Wilson & Company (appeal against Balkaran Maraj's death sentence)

Topics

Shipping

Conveyancing

Internment

International

Labour

Mental illness

Public disorder

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Treason and rebellion

Children

Food and drink

Museums and galleries

Navy

Crime