Despatches from John Robert Chancellor, Governor of Trinidad, dated November and...

Despatches from John Robert Chancellor, Governor of Trinidad, dated November and December 1918, together with correspondence from the Admiralty, Crown Agents, Privy Council Office, Foreign Office, Home Office and the Colonial Office Medical Adviser sent during the year. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (application of D'Arcy Exploration Company for an oil exploration licence, agreement with Messrs Pearson & Son in respect of oil mining rights, supply of fuel oil, Director of Naval Intelligence states that it is undesirable that Carl Boos should continue to act as Italian consul);
• Crown Agents (sale of enemy properties [3 items], application of Messrs Pearson & Son for oil rights [5 items], drilling obligations of United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate, appeal of Balkaran Maraj against death sentence, acquisition of certain rights by Roper River Land & Minerals Company Limited from Trinidad Dominion Oil Limited [2 items], application from locomotive drivers William Adam Campbell and Robert Menzies for transfer to the Nigerian Railway [2 items], recommends Miss Ruth Hartley for post of Head Female Attendant in St Anne's Lunatic Asylum, acquisition of oil property by British Taman Oilfields Limited, purchase by Manufacturers Life Insurance Company of enemy-owned cocoa estates, goods from UK not ordered through Crown Agents, assessment of factories for taxation [2 items], overpayment of colonial allowance to the Protector of Immigrants Lieutenant Colonel W H A de Boissiere, draft model prospecting licence and oil mining lease, issue of shares of United British Mineral Oil Company Limited, oil rights on alienated lands [2 items], liability to Imperial stamp duty on conveyances of foreign property, particulars of post of assistant engineer for the Trinidad Government Floating Dock and Workshop as offered to Lieutenant J Sharp);
• Privy Council Office (Order in Council regarding the petition of Balkaran Maraj for leave to appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago);
• Foreign Office (reports preparations for a revolution in Venezuela, situation in Venezuela, supplies of paper for German propagandist newspaper in Venezuela, revolutionary movement against Venezuelan Government of General Gomez [2 items], correspondence with USA re situation in Venezuela, exemption of consular officials from War Contribution Tax [3 items], anti-French article in The Trinidad Diocesan Magazine, land transfer to US citizen of German birth, transfer of certain oil interests to the Norwegian company Norske Petroleumskilder i Trinidad [4 items], claim of H S Basanta against the Venezuelan Government in respect of the seizure of the motor launch Barbara, appointment of Giuseppe Salvatori as Italian consul at Trinidad, prohibition of ownership of Venezuelan vessels by foreigners);
• Home Office (forwards report on the Reverend Hyacinth Koos from the Leicester Police, comments on Trinidad Cruelty to Animals Ordinance No. 38 of 1917, nationality of Mr M M Martinez);
• Medical Adviser C W Daniels (report on Miss Gertrude Wilhelmina André, report on Mr E C O'Brien, considers Captain W C Anderson unfit for further tropical service, report on Mrs E Solomons, report on Dr Frank Mahabir)

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