Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the...

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/520 - CO 295/523. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

• Admiralty (Oil Bearing Lands Ordinance 1917, Oil Fuel for Port of Spain City Council, dredging for pitch off the coast, charges made by Dr Scheult and Dr Clarke, damping of wireless signals with Jamaica, testing of oil shipped to the Admiralty, wireless communication with Demerara, disturbances in Port of Spain and Tobago);
• Colonial Agents (N T Pouchet's promotion application, Lieutenant M E Coombs' debt, conveyance of foreign property executed in Trinidad, rails for Trinidad Government Railway, Captain Gooden-Chishlom's outfit allowance, indent for explosives, damping of wireless signals between Port of Spain and Georgetown sketch, railway employment, Trinidad Petroleum Development Company's oil rights, Scrutton Sons & Co versus Attorney General, Public Works employment, repatriation of Theophilus Brown to West Africa, post of St Anne's Lunatic Asylum Head Attendant, passage for Captain F S Waldegrave, over payment of Lieutenant L C C Hobson);
• Foreign Office (Venezuelan surtax, raids by government troops in Los Canos in 1915, Father Bernard Carey, Mr and Mrs Schoener's return from Germany, constitution of Martinique and Guadeloupe Legislatures, Dutch Consul Carl A Boos, Venezuelan affairs, Frederick Hoffman's request to enter a free asylum in England, suspected persons, Port of Spain estate of German subject P J W H Hoffman, Frederick Hoffman's Trinidad property, commercial treaty with Venezuela);
• Home Office (Port of Spain Corporation Amendment Ordinance, Frederick Hoffman's admittance to an asylum in the UK);
• India Office (Captain W St C Thwaites release from military service, Trinidad Assistant Forest Office post, East Indian National Congress of Trinidad resolution, Captain M E Coombs retention in the Indian Army, Captain M E Coombs' debt);
• Medical Advisor, C W Daniels (medical report on Dr F Mahibir);
• House of Common (alleged discouragement of settlement on Crown Lands, Habitual Idlers Ordinance inquiry);
• Board of Trade (transfer of shares in Trinidad Dominion Oil Company to foreigners, estates of enemy subjects, denaturation of alcohol, H A Dyer's distressed state, opium imports, manufacture of alcohol for fuel, alleged ill-treatment of E Giroux on a Norwegian ship, import of silver coin, Trinidad Western Oilfields Ltd capital issues, General Petroleum Company capital issues application);
• Treasury (Filicite Estates Ltd capital issues application, proposed new company United British Pipelines Limited, Professor Patrick Cormody's pension, Siparia Oil Company capital issue, colonial officers volunteering for army of occupation);
• War Office (Lieutenant M E Coomb's payment maintenance allowance to an East Indian woman and her two children, Major A S Bowen's passage to Trinidad, C A Prada's passage, Sergeant H Hamson as Sergeant Instructor of the local forces, case of 'lunatic' Private E Goodridge of the British West Indies Regiment, Captain F S Waldegrave's application as staff officer, expense of Lieutenant Colonel W H A de Boissiere's return, staff officers to local forces, Captain L H G Andrews, request for troops to be sent from Jamaica due to a 'disturbance')

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