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

Catalogue reference: CO 295/553

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This record is about the Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and... dating from 1924 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
CO 295/553
Date
1924
Description

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

Offices:

  • Kern River Oilfields of California Limited (Pitch Lake mining lease);
  • Inland Revenue (Income Tax Ordinance);
  • United British West Indies Petroleum Syndicate Ltd (amendment of oil mining lease);
  • Colonial Office (appointment of A W Campbell, Police officers salaries, appointment of J M de Freitas, appointment of A J Clark, appointment of a chief justice, appointment of Sir S Fisher, notes on duties of a stipendiary magistrate);
  • Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton (cost of a topographical survey of Trinidad and Tobago);
  • Office of Parliamentary Counsel (amendment of rules regarding district prisons);
  • Tennants Estates Ltd (Pitch Lake concession);
  • Imperial Shipping Committee (taxation of shipping);
  • Private Secretary, Ministry of Pensions (Trinidad Lake asphalt);
  • Overseas Nursing Association (head female attendant for St Ann's Asylum);
  • Kew Gardens (flora of Trinidad and Tobago);
  • General Post Office (erection of wireless telephone stations);
  • Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd (employers' liability);

Individuals:

  • Bernstein & Salkin (Charles F H Reimer's application for release of his deceased brother Max Reimer's property);
  • W A G Bartley (property of Mrs C de Alonzo);
  • A G Bailey (application for transfer);
  • E Radcliffe Clarke (cocoa industry);
  • Captain M E Coombs (accepts appointment);
  • J E G Carver (declines appointment);
  • A Duckham (lands controlled by Trinidad Development Co);
  • E A G Doyle (pension);
  • P H Ezechiel (redemption of 1920 and 1921 loans);
  • William Gillies (constitutional reform);
  • John Tordiff Hewetson (pension);
  • Lawrance, Webster, Messer & Nicholls (Trinidad Pitch Lake, draft of new mining lease, appointment of a new chairman to Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co);
  • Lord Long (Trinidad Pitch Lake);
  • T George Madjwick (application for appointment);
  • George H Masson (reconstitution of the Legislative Council);
  • George Moody Stuart (income tax);
  • Allan E Messer (import duty on barrel staves, Trinidad Pitch Lake);
  • Alfred W Nash (application for post of government adviser to Trinidad Oilfields);
  • D Slyne (Income Tax Ordinance);
  • O W Wells & Co (Pitch Lake concession);
  • Sir Samuel Wilson (departure for Jamaica).

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
International
Labour
Mental illness
Taxation
Trade and commerce
Nursing
Caribbean
Maps and plans
Oil and gas
Pay and pensions
Policing
Communications
Prisons
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C988001/

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