Letters from offices (government departments and other organisations) on matters...

CO 295/540

1921

Letters from offices (government departments and other organisations) on matters related Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (allowances to officer in charge of oil shipments, fuel oil contract with Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd, payment of officer in charge of testing oil cargoes, H B Walcott's allowance, remuneration to naval agent);
• Crown Agents (Scrutton Sons & Co versus the attorney general, engine driver vacancies, amalgamated oilfields, W B Mitford's application to construct a pipeline, purchase of rails in the United States, arms for the Constabulary Department, coastal steamer service, J McGhee's application for appointment, A W Ibbett's application to lay pipelines, locomotive drivers, improvement of wharf accommodation, estate of deceased C F Ligaure, free allocation of arms and ammunition, Orapouch Lagoon drainage, removal of Port of Spain wireless telegraph station, income tax, Spies Petroleum Co's oil mining rights, Spies Petroleum Co's directors' report, appointment of J McGhee as Inspector of Ways and Works, Sergeant J G Will's travelling expenses);
• Foreign Office (Vice Consul of the United States, telegraph communication between Trinidad and Venezuela, admission to Trinidad of German governess Gertrud Gentz, visit of United States vessels to the West Indies, Miss K H E Schoener's property, claim against director of naval communications in Washington, import duty on candles, alleged ill-treatment of deck hand Ellis - son of Brunette Giroux - on the Norwegian schooner Pusey Jones II, French consul, income tax reciprocity with the United States, holding of land by aliens, permission for French missionary Alphonse Zindt to go to Trinidad, claim of the deceased Philip Genty against the Venezuelan government);
• Home Office (Reformatory Schools Ordnance 1920, detention of H Crosby as a witness in criminal proceedings, A Drexel's German governess, J Henderson's certificate of naturalization certificate, opium and drug traffic);
• India Office (Captain M E Coombs not accepted for a permanent commission in the Indian Army);
• Board of Trade (Louis Wessels' claim);
• War Office (confidential reports on Lieutenant H B Shepheard, Captain F S Waldegrave, and Captain G H Latham for conveyance to officers for their initials, retention of infantry detachment in Trinidad, removal of British troops, Captain E G M Buckley);
• Colonial Office (Bolshevik leaders and propaganda agents [not included in volume]);
• West India Committee (wharf accommodation, leper settlement transfer, Income Tax Ordinance);
• Customs (D Blyne's and Professor P Carmody's pensions);
• Imperial Bureau of Entomology (Dr E C F Lasalle's anopheles survey);
• Clearing Office, Enemy Debts (E Hammerschmidt's claim against the deceased F W Meyer and his heirs);
• Central Criminal Court (detention of seaman Horace Crosby);
• International Health Board (hookworm disease report by Dr G C Payne with map of Trinidad and images of cured patients);
• Emigration Agency Calcutta (Dr Durgadas Sen's petition for a pension increase, returned Indian emigrants);
• General Post Office (wireless communication with Venezuela, claim of E Tripp & Co);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (F R Lambert's instruction course);
• Petroleum Department (government fuel oil contract);
• Trinidad Central Oilfields (oil rights in certain areas);
• Spies Petroleum Co (oil mining rights).

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International

Litigation

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Migration

Radio and television

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Maps and plans

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Ireland

Children

Debt

Nationality

Navy