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

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:

• Crown Agents (draughtsman vacancy, railway and steamer service report, proposed Workmen's Compensation Bill, Pitch Lake concession);
• Foreign Office (passport declarations, arms trade, export of arms);
• Medical Adviser (J W Perkins' health);
• Board of Trade (mining lease to Pitch Lake, relief of West Indian seamen, case of Captain F M Harvey);
• Treasury (advances made by the British government);
• War Office (vacancy for staff officer of local forces);
• Inland Revenue (income tax allowances to oil companies, Income Tax Ordinance);
• Kern River Oilfields of California Limited (Pitch Lake concession);
• Colonial Office (A Protheroe, Central Cotton Research Station, widows and orphans pension scheme, income tax of shareholders in British companies, salaries of assistant conservators of forests, appointment of colonial secretary);
• Imperial Forestry Institute (forest officers trained at Debra Dun, Captain Marshall's report on forestry);
• General Post Office (Post Office Amendment Ordinance 1925, draft experimental wireless licence);
• Mercantile Marine Service Association (Captain F M Harvey's petition against dismissal);
• Kew Gardens (flora of Trinidad);
• Elected Members of the Legislative Council (constitutional reform);
• Director of Colonial Audit (Abstract Account 1924);
• Forestry Commission (Caption Marshall's report on forestry);
• Board of Education (application of Miss M C Johnston of Barbados for appointment as an instructress in the infant school method at the Government Training College).

Individuals:

• L Browett, Inland Revenue (assessment to income tax of shareholders in British companies);
• Dr G D Fanshawl (stranding of SS Belize, dismissal of Captain F M Harvey);
• John Gaughan (petition regarding pension);
• F W Goldstone, National Union of Teachers (conditions of service for teachers);
• C S Hohenkerk (transfer of Mr Brinsley to British Guiana as forest surveyor);
• W G Huggard, Attorney General (draft Workmen's Compensation Bill);
• Lawrance, Webster, Messer & Nicholls (Pitch Lake concession);
• Rev C S Morton (requests permission to search certain Tobago records);
• B H Morgan (levy on cocoa export for purposes of Cocoa Producers Cooperative Alliance);
• Allen E Messer (Trinidad Pitch Lake);
• R H McCarthy (income tax on non-residents);
• Eugene Ramsden (report on visit to Trinidad);
• A W Rogers and F H Watson (Workmen's Compensation Bill);
• F H Watson and others (Workmen's Compensation Bill).

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Trade and commerce

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Research

Children

Forestry

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Communications

Education

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