Letters from various miscellaneous offices (departments and other organisations)...

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

Miscellaneous Offices (departments and other organisations):

• General Post Office (wireless service between Trinidad, Curaçao and Paramanibo; wireless rates charged by Trinidad stations);
• Carrington House (distressed seaman J R Pigott);
• Ministry of Shipping (Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's SS Belize coastal service);
• Ministry of Labour (re-employment of R J O'Connor, export of steel rails to colonies, repatriation of T Browne);
• Prisoners of War Department (case of George Stade a naturalized British subject of German origin);
• Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (Ordinance 21 of 1918 Diseases of Animals);
• West India Committee (assisted passages of Mrs Bowen and family, Second Lieutenant Carlos A Prada, recommendation to send white troops to Port of Spain due to disturbances, shipping facilities for the oil industry);
• Foreign Trade Department (storing of goods in Venezuela);
• Trinidad Leaseholds Limited (oil mining rights);
• Trinidad Central Oilfields Limited (passage for geologists to go to Trinidad, oil industry export tax, water supply);
• Colonial Office (passage to Trinidad for the Bishop of Trinidad, proposal to increase the royalty on Trinidad oil);
• International Health Board (relief and control of hookworm disease);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (Trinidad and Tobago coastal service);
• Petroleum Executive (Trinidad as an oil producing colony, British Borneo Petroleum Syndicate, conservation of petroleum gas, local attitude to oil industry);
• Overseas Settlement Committee (application of ex-service man Theophilus Scott);
• The Overseas Nursing Association (Miss M E Roxburgh's resignation as matron);
• Public Record Office (Treasury records relating to valuation of the Mon Repos estate);
• Ministry of Pensions (pension of Wilfrid Bishop);
• Customs (import of Venezuelan cocoa into the UK, motor spirit duty);
• Ordnance Survey (topographers for survey);

Individuals:

• Andrew Joseph Bernard, Lieutenant (promotion application);
• Archibald G Bell (computation of pension on retirement, discovery of oil in England);
• Herman E Bowles (petition concerning his dismissal from the Trinidad Constabulary);
• Benekendorff Berger & Co (liquidation of Wessels Bros & Von Gontard firm);
• W Burdett-Coutts (support of Captain Ashmead Bartlett's application for a prospecting licence);
• P Carmody (pension calculation);
• A P Catherall (application for post of inspector of mines);
• Sir J R Chancellor (British Borneo Petroleum Syndicate's proposed operations in Trinidad, dredging operations for pitch off the coast, Dutch Consul Carl Boos' alleged German sympathies, extension of leave, draft Oil Industries Ordinance, Fyzabad Oilfields Limited, Justice Blackwood Wright request for permission to accept two directorships of commercial companies);
• FitzGerald Clark (requests assistance in getting employment and repatriation to Trinidad);
• Sir John Cadman (reorganization of the Land and Mines Department, recommends R R Thompson for post of director of lands and mines);
• John Fitzroy Crichton (promotion application);
• W H Coombs (increase of pensions enquiry);
• J Dayrell (dismissal from constabulary, requests reinstatement of compassionate allowance);
• Richard C Duke (his dismissal from the Police force);
• C E Duruty, Lieutenant (testimonials in support of his promotion application);
• W Martin Dickson (assistant railway engineer application);
• J R Dickinson (re-employment on return);
• Alexander Duckham & Co (tank transporter for oil, payment of motor spirit duty);
• Evans Sons Lescher & Webb Limited (effect of Carl A Boos' breach of the Defence of the Realm Regulations on the reputation of Harriman & Co);
• W H Eccles (passage);
• Percy Eckel, Captain (application for constabulary appointment, promotion);
• Miss M T Flood (application for appointment in Gambia);
• G F Gilmore (memorandum regarding W Bertram Mitford's application for oil rights);
• T L Gilmour (issue of shares of San Francique Oil Company, development of oil lands);
• George S Huggins (Dr J R Dickson's claim for appointment as surgeon general);
• E R C Hobson (application for a permanent colonial appointment);
• A E Harragin, Major (asks that his child allowance not be deducted from his salary);
• W Harragin, (release from army, appointment as magistrate warden in Tobago, application for post of stipendiary magistrate of San Fernando);
• L Cyril Inniss (war bonus application);
• S W Knaggs (pension);
• John Lort Williams (transfer of Mr Hoyer's rights to Norske Petroleumskilder i Trinidad);
• W Livingston (appointment as assistant district engineer for the Public Works Department);
• S Myers & Son (transfer of Norske Petroleum Skilder shares);
• J Duncan Miller (pension);
• Charles William Meaden (increase of pension);
• Mrs Fanny Norman (pension or gratuity);
• E C O'Brien (requests promotion to a senior post, return to the colony, resignation);
• W G Oldershaw (accepts appointment as harbour master);
• Preece Cardew Snell & Rider (wireless communication with Demerara and Jamaica);
• N T Pouchet (salary);
• Arthur Pantin, Captain (applies for appointment as staff officer of local forces);
• J F Reekie [Meekie ?] (business of the Myer family);
• J Sharp Junior (liability for refund of passage);
• George Stade, nationalized subject of Trinidad interned in Germany (requests assistance to secure a passport or transfer his credit, the sugar industry);
• H A C Swertz (colonial service);
• K C Strahan (enquires about the salary and allowances of the locomotive superintendent post);
• F M Simmonds (appointment under Ministry of Pensions);
• W St Clair Thwaites (appointment in medical service);
• R R Thompson (declines appointment as director of lands and mines);
• George H Wood (damping of wireless signals between Port of Spain and Georgetown);
• J W Wilson, Captain (release from the army, promotion);
• E Blackwood Wright (pensionable service in the Seychelles, requests permission to hold directorships for oil companies);
• R H Walsh, Major (refers to the promise made to re-instatement him in the post of adjutant constabulary and staff officer of local forces);
• F S Waldegrave, Captain (applies for post of staff officer of local forces, war gratuity);
• Baron Willoughby de Broke (Mitford Co's application for oil leases);
• L Richmond Wheeler (repatriation).

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