Catalogue description Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'Miscellaneous...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'Miscellaneous Offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from Individuals on matters relating to British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:

• General Post Office (parcel post with the United States, money order and telegraph business with Mexico, mail service between Honduras Republic and British Honduras, parcel post service with British Honduras);
• Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau (mining laws, geological survey on British Honduras, appointment of H A Baker);
• Petroleum Department (geological survey of British Honduras, storage of oil, searching for and winning of crude oil, proposed ordinances);
• Ministry of Munitions (disposal of motor launch);
• Scottish-American Oil and Transport Company Limited (oil investigation and mission of Mr W Smith, grant of oil licence, oil prospecting licence, oil exploration licence);
• Colonial Audit Department (accounts for 1917-18);
• Ministry of Pensions (case of I A Sabido of British West Indies Regiment);
• Honduras Trading Company Limited (sale of property, disposal of fruit at Riversdale estate);
• Colonial Office (Government geologist, wireless communication improvement, transfer to Jamaica of Mr A A Hearne);
• Committee of Imperial Defence (stations in British Honduras and Bahamas);
• Customs and Excise (assessment of customs duties);
• Department of Overseas Trade (land option for cattle ranch);
• Public Trustee (returns of enemy property);
• Royal Bank of Canada (advances to Colonial Government);
• Inland Revenue (Income Tax Ordinance 1920);
• Prudential Insurance Company of America (statistical tables of the annual reports for British Honduras for 1905-16);
• West India Committee (cane syrup industry);
• Culloden Consolidated Company and Rosehaugh Company Limited (oil and mineral prospecting rights);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (silk grass industry).

• George Bevans (claim against firms in Honduras for the loss of part of his foot);
• M Cuthert (application for transfer);
• William Alexander Cleghorn (application for colonial appointment);
• Roger Cutting (application for colonial medical appointment);
• A T Drummond (development of colony);
• J De Paiva and Company (import duty rate of exchange);
• W G Doyle (cohune trees);
• Lord Donoughmore (assistance for Mrs Ida H H Graves);
• Sir B Escott (application of Herman King for imperial naturalisation);
• R Franklin (further employment);
• W R Hunt (pension rate of exchange, arrears of pension);
• Eyre Hutson (state of affairs in Belize, re-organisation of Surveyor General's Department, Mr E M Peterkin, timber concession, extension of leave, sale of Rivensdale estate, development of Stann Creek Valley, ill-feeling between Lieutenant Regness and men of the West India Regiment, leave salary, parcel post service between United Kingdom and British Honduras, cohune nut concession, development of colony, advance to Colonial Government - offer of Royal Bank of Canada, new customs tariff law, information on Dr A A Hearne, labour from Jamaica, dredging and harbour works, cane sugar industry);
• Mrs L Hudson (pension);
• Alexander Hunter (pension sterling value and pension method of payment);
• John Hanson and Sons (sugar production in British Honduras);
• Lieutenant Colonel A B R Kaye (compassionate allowance exchange rate);
• Sir W L Lewis (increase of pension);
• M M Murphly (buoy for Colonial Government, travelling and subsistence allowance, new Government buildings);
• P E Matthews (colonial employment);
• W L McKinstry (appointment as Colonial Secretary, Chief Secretaryship at Cyprus, retirement);
• M H Matthews (appointment as auditor);
• H G Perkins (retirement);
• G M Prothero (maps of British Honduras);
• Sir O Phillips (immigration of Spaniards);
• J Roberts (assistance pending repatriation);
• C L Ridley (promotion or transfer to Jamaica);
• J A Sabido (return to colony);
• J A L Smith (appointment as Registrar General);
• Sir E J E Swayne (application for naturalisation of H King);
• Fred E Starkey (land option for cattle ranch);
• Duncan Stewart and Company (proposed sugar factory);
• Alfredo R Taylor (visit to British Honduras);
• A G Taylor (death of J L Hudson and assistance for his widow, interview);
• R Walter (appointment as Administrator of Dominica);
• S G Warren (widows and orphans pension scheme).