Letters sent from office (1921 July-Dec) and individuals on matters related to Trinidad...

CO 295/541

1921

Letters sent from office (1921 July-Dec) and individuals on matters related to Trinidad and Tobago. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices (government departments and other organisations):

• Trinidad Central Oilfields (preferential treatment in France);
• Colonial Office (pensions to school teachers, child welfare, sugar agronomist for Department of Agriculture, G Perry Lewis, labour questions, industrial, social and political welfare, Economic Botanist A G Bailey, offer of appointment as geologist to C A P Southwell, J D Kettle for appointment as assistant government analyst, Miss C M Fraser for appointment as principal of the government training college for women);
• Petroleum Department (Spies Company Ltd, oil rights, United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate, model form of oil licence, oil exploration licences, prices of crude petroleum and its products);
• Ministry of Pensions (Cyril Devenish's pension);
• General Post Office (removal of the wireless telegraph station, wireless communication between Trinidad and Venezuela);
• British Museum (P L Guppy's investigation into poisonous fish, neolithic remains at Palo Beco);
• Inland Revenue (Finance Act 1920, income tax relief, Miss May Newbold's claim to repayment of income tax);
• The Overseas Nursing Association (recommends: Miss Rachel McHenry as female head attendant at St Ann's Lunatic Asylum, Miss E Rains head female attendant at St Ann's Lunatic Asylum, Miss Mary Jane Martin as charge nurse at the Colonial Hospital);
• United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate (oil concessions, Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, drilling obligations);
• Life Offices' Association (taxation of insurance premiums);
• Commissioner of Police (list of officers volunteering for duty as sub-inspector of the Trinidad Constabulary);
• West India Association of Glasgow (Ordinance 54 of 1921 - Income Tax);
• Trinidad Leaseholds (income tax);
• Ministry of Health (committee of enquiry into the system of poor relief).

Individuals:

• D E Alexander (forwards a letter from G F Huggins protesting against the transfer of the leper asylum to Chacachacare);
• Donald McKenzie Anderson (applies for a colonial appointment);
• Herman E Bowles (willing to return to Trinidad for the enquiry into his dismissal from the police force);
• Samuel Joseph Boyd (petition for an investigation in to the cause of his resignation from the police force);
• J Byam (petition against his dismissal from the police force, requests reinstatement);
• Henry A Bovell (agrees to undertake the task of the revision of statute laws);
• Sir John Cadman (Trinidad Drilling and Contracting Co Ltd's application for a licence to lay pipelines, Trinidad Petroleum Co Ltd's application for a petroleum lease over Crown lands, unofficial petroleum advisor to the government);
• Oliver Clarke (dismissal, requests reinstatement);
• Sir John R Chancellor (oil royalties, extension of leave, retirement);
• Collins Sons & Co Ltd (duty on certain foods returned by purchasers);
• Hugh Dorman (oil prospecting licence);
• G J H Down (promotion application) [not included in volume];
• L H Elphinstone (salary bonus enquiry);
• T L Gilmour (business connection with oil enterpriser W B Mitford);
• Patrick Jones (application for surveyorship in Bermuda);
• A W Ibbett (pipe lines concession);
• R H McCarthy (royalty and export duty in the oil industry, Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd);
• Sir W H Mercer (resigns as director of colonial scholars);
• H R Marwood (requests interview to discuss the governor's wish to hasten his retirement);
• W B Mitford (application for a pipe line concession);
• J O'Connor (promotion request);
• Clanfergael George Chanterell O'Halloran (petition for a small pension);
• Camilo Antonio Prada (protests against being confined in the lunatic asylum, requests redress);
• G Perry-Lewis (appointment as postmaster general);
• R E J Paul (leave pay);
• Rehder & Higgs, solicitors (Louis Wessel's claim against the estate of Wessels Bros & von Gontard, company's statement of receipts and payment November 1914 to November 1919 for the Port of Spain and San Fernando branches);
• C Roper (states his pension case) [not included in volume];
• Mrs E Robinson (widows' pension enquiry);
• S O Seon (case against the Trinidad government);
• George Moody Stuart (comments on the Income Tax Ordinance, oil prospecting licence);
• W E Smith (offers services for railway administration enquiry);
• A R Vancrosson (leave extension request, resigns);
• S G Warner (fee for recalculating pension tables);
• C B Williams (appointment as senior entomologist in the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture);
• E Blackwood Wright (resignation, pension);
• Joseph Willis (state of St Julien Road).

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

International

Mental illness

Railways

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Radio and television

Nursing

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Policing

Crown lands and estates

Food and drink

Museums and galleries

Poverty

Sewerage

Americas

Communications

Sex and gender