Letters from various offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to...

Letters from various offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/515 - CO 295/517. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (government departments and other organisations):

• Board of Trade (foreigners' acquisition of shares in Trinidadian companies, claim of C de Verteuil, proposed purchase of two steamers, liquidation of enemy firms, take over of Trinidad Dominion Oil Ltd by the Roper River Land and Mineral Co, shipments of cocoa);
• Treasury (Professor Patrick Carmondy's pension, United British Mineral Oil Company's request to issue shares, coal for government railways);
• War Office (Captain C G H Campbell's application for appointment in the West African medical service, Second Lieutenant M E Coombs maintenance allowance for an Indian immigrant woman and her two children, employment of temporary Lieutenant L CC Hobson as staff officer to the local forces);
• War Trade Intelligence Department (Swedish firm's purchase of a cocoa estate);
• Board of Customs (Professor Patrick Carmody's service);
• Prisoners of War Department (petition of interned German Gustav Tegge);
• Foreign Trade Department (enemy subject shareholders of certain companies, importation of Trinidad cacao into the United Kingdom, goods imported for the US without certificates of origin and interest, Angostura Bitters Limited trading with the enemy, A J Hoyer and the Aigahim Estate);
• Law Society (Solicitors Amendment Ordinance, transmission of law examination papers from Trinidad);
• Local Government Board (copy of printed Legislative Council debates, observations on the Streets and Buildings Ordinance 1917);
• Ministry of Shipping (freight and passenger rates of Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's coastal services, movements of Compagnie Generale Transatlantique steamers);
• he Central Mining & Investment Corporation Limited (renews application for oil-mining lease);
• Ministry of Information (supplies paper for German propagandist newspaper in Venezuela) [no papers on this subject are included in the item];
• Central Mining & Investment Corporation (oil mining lease);
• High Commissioner for Canada (purchase of enemy cocoa estates by Manufacturers Life Insurance Company of Canada, the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company prospectus);
• General Medical Council (Dr Henry Saturnin Hartley's case, Council minutes, unprofessional conduct by medical practitioners outside of the United Kingdom);
• West India Committee (statements from Misses Maingot, Prada, Herrera, and Throne concerning their applications for passports - all wished to return to the West Indies from the United Kingdom, shipment of cargo from Trinidad, shipment of cocoa);
• Trinidad Shipping and Trading Co (harbour improvements);
• Registrar General (marriage ceremonies in registered buildings);
• General Post Office (electrical apparatus seized from a resident of Port of Spain, direct parcel post between Trinidad St Lucia and France, observations on the Port Office Ordinance 1918);
• The Colonial Nursing Association (Miss May Newbold's charge nurse application, Miss Margaret Catherine Roxburgh's matron application);
• H M Petroleum Executive (opinion on proposed reorganisation of the Mines and Crown Lands Departments);
• Colonial Office (control of oil-bearing properties);
• The Orinoco Estates Ltd (export tax on hides shipped from Venezuela via Trinidad);
• Overseas Trade Department (hides shipped from Venezuela to the UK via Trinidad);
• The West Indian Contingent Committee (Lieutenant C E Duruty's application for colonial employment);
• Inland Revenue (conveyance of foreign property executed in the UK)

Individuals:

• A S Bowen, Warden (increase of pay for army officers, relinquishment of commission);
• Professor Patrick Carmondy, former Director of Agriculture (his service, pension, testimonial);
• Professor John Cadman, Director of HM Petroleum Executive (keeping oil field equipment in San Fernando, supply of oil for the government, acquisition of oil-rights over small-holdings by local speculators, oil fuel production);
• A de Boissiere, Lieutenant Colonel in the Eight Battalion of the British West Indies Regiment (leave salary);
• E Evans, Captain and Adjutant in the Sixth Battalion of the British West Indies Regiment (application for a colonial appointment, Grenada Prison governor application);
• W H Eccles, Captain in the Fifth Battalion of the British West Indies Regiment (application for an appointment in East Africa);
• A L George, Captain and Surgeon in the RAMC (application for a colonial appointment);
• Hugh Glynn-Kellman, Army Cyclist Corps (application for a colonial appointment); S B B Hammond, Lieutenant (colonial allowance);
• C J S Harper (unprofessional conduct of medical practitioners);
• James Carrington Hay, Second Clerk in the Printing Department (petition for re-instatement or a gratuity);
• W Harragin (proposal to appoint him as warden magistrate in Tobago);
• Julien Mackinnon Isles (passport application); S W Knaggs, Colonial Secretary (tenders resignation, retirement);
• Mayo Elder & Co (Trinidad Dominion Oil Company, names and addresses of Roper River Land & Minerals Co shareholders);
• J Duncan Miller (reports resignation due to age and health, Vitalis Lewis' assistant veterinary surgeon application);
• H R Marwood, General Manager Railways (observations of G H B Hackett's case);
• Morton Rose Barrington & Co (Norske Petroleumskilder in Trinidad's acquisition of an oil field, removal of pro-German Mr Jacobsen from his post of Managing Director, sale of Mr Hoyer's shares);
• Malcolm Martin Nock (colonial appointment application);
• Mohamed Orfy, President of the East Indian Destitute League (protest against deportation, asks for an investigation into his case) [describes himself as 'a native of England by birth, and a national patriot of India by blood'];
• Sir Lionel Phillips (Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd oil mining concessions);
• R Rutherford (reappointment of Entomologist C B Williams for two years to conduct the froghopper investigation);
• George Moody Stuart (applies for a licence to prospect for oil);
• L R Wheeler, Royal Air Force Lieutenant (asks if there are any vacancies in the Administrative Agricultural or Educational Departments)

Topics

Shipping

Internment

International

Labour

Public disorder

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Marriage and divorce

Nursing

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Children

Coal

Crown lands and estates

Americas

Banking

Communications