Letters sent from offices (government departments and other organizations) and individuals...

CO 295/545

1922

Letters sent from offices (government departments and other organizations) and individuals on matters related to Trinidad and Tobago. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (contract for oil fuel with Trinidad Leasehold Ltd);
• Crown Agents (R E J Paul's salary and advance, pipeline agreement with Trinidad Petroleum Development Co Ltd, Caroni reclamation scheme, harbour improvements at Port of Spain, British Controlled Oilfields Ltd's proposed wireless telephone service between Trinidad and Venezuela, cancellation of Trinidad United Oilfields Ltd's lease, R E J Paul's departure, E Blackwood Wright's pension, statement showing new issues of postage and revenue stamps made in the West Indies since 1918, recommends R G M Fell as inspector of ways and works for the government railway, J W Spiller's report on the government railways, polariscope and accessories for the Agriculture Department);
• Foreign Office (British Controlled Oilfields Ltd's proposed wireless telephone service between Trinidad and Venezuela);
• Home Office (no exceptions to regulations under the Habitual Idlers Ordinance, solitary confinement at convict depots rules, applications made by private chemists for dangerous drugs, The West Indian Company);
• Board of Trade (cocoa industry, property of the late Max Reimer, Ordinance 8 of 1922 Income Tax Ordinance, duty on oil exported to France, export of kerosene to Martinique and Guadeloupe);
• Treasury (repayment of advances made to the colony during the war);
• War Office (detachment of troops sent to Trinidad);
• Petroleum Department (oil drilling operations on private lands, sketches showing drilling sites, agreement between United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate and Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, export taxes on petroleum, water intrusion into oil lands, construction of pipe line);
• The Commissioner of Police (police report on W Howard-Bishop Jr's activities, publications by W Howard-Bishop Jr related to the Trinidad Workingmen's Association and a Labour Federation in the West Indies and British Guiana);
• United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate (agreement with Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij);
• Custom House (Customs Ordinance);
• Trinidad United Oilfields Ltd (appeal against the cancellation of their oil mining lease at Palo Seco);
• Colonial Office (compulsory retirement of officials on reaching a specific age; bound copy of the Ceylon Widows' and Orphans' pension fund 8% tables; corrections to the fund's tables; proposed alterations to the Legislative Council Finance Committee; salary revisions; extracts from Mr Woods' report on education in the West Indies, safeguarding of industries, the Venezuelan surtax, status of East Indians, and an interview with representatives of Tobago; appointment of W B Heaton as assistant inspector of mines, transfer of oil rights to aliens in private ownership; appointment of R C Greenway and B J Bedell as assistant school masters at Queen's Royal College; motor taxation; R Tottenham's appointment as sub inspector of Police);
• General Post Office (British Controlled Oilfield Ltd's application to establish a wireless telephone service for private business between their offices in Trinidad and Venezuela);
• West India Association of Glasgow (Income Tax Ordinance observations, complaint against the provisions of Ordinance 66 of 1921 Agriculture Relief);
• West India Sales Company (Income Tax Ordinance enquiry);
• West India Committee (requests a copy of Income Tax Ordinance 1922);
• The Labour Party Executive Committee (Pastor Hurley's appeal regarding the Shouters' Ordinance No 27 of 1917);
• Department of Overseas Trade (appointment of a British Trade Commissioner at Trinidad);
• Manchester Chamber of Commerce (protest against section 24 of the Income Tax Ordinance);
• London Chamber of Commerce (protest against section 24 of the Income Tax Ordinance);
• Canadian Bank of Commerce (question of establishing an agricultural bank);
• Southern Exploration Company (exploitation of Pitch Lake);
• Kern River Oilfields of California Ltd (refusal of an application by Kern Trinidad Oilfields Ltd for oil licences and surface rights).

Individuals:

• A Duckham (asks if American capital would be allowed to operate in the Trinidad oil industry, re-imposition of motor spirit duty);
• Phillip Dumas, Admiral (oil industry);
• Sir H J Gibson (income tax);
• Thomas and James Harrison (income tax legislation);
• S B B Hammond, Captain (abolition of post of garrison adjutant in the Trinidad local forces);
• Kramer & Kramer (John Smidt's partnership interest with regard to the liquidation of Wessels Bros & von Gontard);
• Laurence Keir (liquidation of Wessels Bros & von Gontard);
• Lines Bros Ltd (Income Tax Ordinance);
• T J Milner (argues for Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd's increased supplies of fuel to the Admiralty);
• Thomas Prentice (case against the Income Tax Ordinance);
• R E J Paul (applies for appointment as chief clerk and accountant of the Supreme Court);
• W J Pitman, solicitor (applies for money on behalf of George M Martin as compensation for the liberation of 31 slaves of the late Regis Vincent's Non Repos Sugar Plantation);
• Mrs E Robinson (Widows' and Orphan Pension);
• J J Stevens (resignation from the Trinidad government railway);
• R R Thompson (water intrusion into oil bearing land, resignation from post of director of lands and mines);
• Sir S H Wilson (requests advice about the colony's financial position, appointment of a new receiver general and auditor general);
• R S A Warner (requests permission to retire in November);
• J & R Wilson, West Indian Agents (Income Tax Ordinance).

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