Correspondence from 'offices' (government departments and other organisations) relating...

CO 295/532

1920

Correspondence from 'offices' (government departments and other organisations) relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (wireless communication between Demerara and Trinidad, riots, situation at Trinidad, Trinidad Lands (Oil Bearing) Ordinance 1917, oil fuel requirements of government, employment of H B Walcott as naval agent, claim for fees and expenses for analysis of air from Admiralty bunker, proposed visit of French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc, expenses incurred for towage and repairs of SS Assouan);
• Crown Agents (volunteer reserve East Africa and Nyasaland, Mr L J Poxon's application for post of inspector of ways, indebtedness of Capt M E Coombs to colonial government, recommends Richard Henry Davie for post of head male attendant at St Anne's Lunatic Asylum, Uroz Oilfields Ltd, appointment of William Frank Davidson as locomotive engine driver, expenses incurred by Mr M B Nakhid in Canada, arrival of wireless expert, appointment of Mr R H Davie at Lunatic Asylum, Scrutton Sons & Company v the Attorney General, recommends Gilbert J H Down as inspector of ways and works, deductions from pension of Mr R H McCarthy, repatriation of Mr J C Alleyne returned prisoner of war, leave salary of governor, income tax on interest on Treasury bills, bonuses on pensions, recommends James McGhee as inspector of ways and works, alimentary allowance to Dr E Blackwood Wright former puisne judge, increase of pensions, recommends Capt E H Wainwright as assistant locomotive carriage and wagon superintendent, Phoenix Oil & Transport Company Limited, vacancy for railway construction engineer, appointment of Mr F W Simpkinson as second assistant maintenance engineer in the Railway Department, payment of travelling expenses to sub-inspectors of police training with Royal Irish Constabulary, Charuma Oilfields Limited, appointment of Thomas Fowler Tomlinson as assistant maintenance engineer, colonial government's request for supply of ammunition);
• Privy Council Office (rules of Supreme Court, appeal case of Trinidad Shipping and Trading Company v George R Alston & Company);
• Foreign Office (complaint of Mr E S Milner against the Government of Venezuela, status of German minister at Caracas, Trinidad Lands (Oil Bearing) Ordinance No 29 of 1917, commercial treaty with Venezuela, returns two letters addressed to Mr J Ciceron Castillo with request that sender be placed under surveillance, release of Vincent de Freitas from US Navy, opening of the River Orinoco, petition of Carl Hugo Hoffmann, liquidation of business of P Scheerer & Company, importation of French foods, Paul Scheerer's application to return to Trinidad, property of Mr C H Hoffmann, states what is known of Clifford Alleyne, accession to the International Radio Telegraph Convention, telegraphic communication with Venezuela via Trinidad, Irish clergy in Trinidad);
• Home Office (regulations for borstal institutions in the UK made under the Prevention of Crime Act 1908, offences by prisoners awaiting trial, Returning Deportees (Punishment) Ordinance [not in volume]);
• India Office (appointment of Mr C H Gopaul as East Indian representative on Board of Education in Trinidad);
• House of Commons (parliamentary questions relating to Habitual Idlers Ordinance, salaries of signalmen, repair of cable steamer, and deportation of members of Trinidad Working Men's Association);
• Board of Trade (Profiteering Ordinance No 33 of 1919, property of German national Miss Gibsone, Pilots (Amendment) Ordinance No 7 of 1920, import of dyestuffs into West Indies, repatriation of Vincent Brown discharged from SS Hypatia, liquidation of business of P Scheerer & Company);
• Treasury (pension of Professor Carmody);
• War Office (availability of surveyors, detachment of Royal Sussex Regiment quartered in Trinidad, allowances to officers and men of Trinidad detachment, non-commissioned officers for survey work, recommends Corporal R N M Corner for senior survey post, increase of pension of Sgt Major W Marsh, extension of engagement of Sgt G J Will sergeant instructor, topographers for survey work, service of Capt P Eckel with Indian Army, appointment of Sgt Blunt as sergeant instructor to the local forces, asks if Capt G H Latham has left UK for Trinidad, requests withdrawal of detachment of Royal Sussex Regiment, forwards application of Capt C Lamb for post of deputy inspector general of Constabulary, cannot approve promotion of Sgt O J Blunt, retention of detachment of Royal Sussex Regiment in Trinidad);
• Royal Bank of Canada (note issue);
• West India Committee (oil shipping facilities, requisitioning of sugar by colonial government, Food and Fuel Control Ordinance 1920);
• Angostura Bitters Ltd (import duty on articles used in the manufacture of bitters);
• Petroleum Executive/Department (provisions of Lands (Oil Bearing) Ordinance No 29 of 1917, export of oil, foreshore oil prospecting licenses, increase in oil production revenue, petroleum gas, suggests meeting, Trinidad oil production, royalty on oil from Crown lands, Trinidad Drilling and Contracting Company);
• Charity Organisations Society (repatriation of Mr and Mrs Nakhid);
• Board of Customs and Excise (shipment of Venezuelan cocoa from Trinidad to UK, certificates of origin for cocoa shipments, validity of such certificates, pensionable service of Denis Slyne);
• Colonial Bank (export of silver);
• Trinidad Petroleum Development Company Limited (Lands (Oil Bearing) Ordinance 1917);
• West India and Panama Telegraph Company (cable ship Henry Holmes, repairs to cable ship);
• General Post Office (complaint against operators at Port of Spain Radio Station);
• Overseas Nursing Association (recommends Mrs Olive Lilian Williams as charge nurse in the Colonial Hospital, recommends Miss Elizabeth Annie Frewin for same post, recommends Miss Margaret Baird as head female attendant at St Ann's Lunatic Asylum);
• West India Association of Glasgow (price of sugar, sugar retained in colony for local needs);
• British Union Oil Company Limited (oil prospecting license);
• Colonial Office (Widows and Orphans Pension Scheme, lease of oil-bearing lands, visit of Prince of Wales, offer of post of superintendent of police in Nyasaland to Mr R J Paul);
• Railway Passengers Assurance Company (sends guarantee bond);
• North American Dye Corporation (shipment of Nadco dye for Angosturas Bitters);
• Naparima Oilfields of Trinidad Ltd (oil prospecting license);
• Director of Military Intelligence (topographical survey instruments);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (forest reserves);
• West India Association of Liverpool (action of governor with regard to threatened seizure of sugar from Trinidad Estates Company, Food and Fuel Ordinance 1920);
• Anglo-Persian Oil Company (appointment of Mr R R Thompson as director of lands and mines);
• Central Advisory Committee for Ex-Sailors and Ex-Soldiers (allowance for Lieutenant T P Phillips while training at Royal Irish Constabulary depot);
• Royal Irish Constabulary depot, Dublin (Lieutenant T P Phillips has commenced course, mounted police duties, course for sub-inspector of police);
• Rosehaugh Company Ltd (Crown lands);
• Public Trustee Office (property of Frau Amalie Scherer);
• Ministry of Health (destitute colonial seamen).

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