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

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices: Admiralty (Mr S A Cuthbert and his withdrawal from the Royal Naval College, stores for wireless telegraph station at Belize - plans enclosed); Crown Agents (oil concessions, topographical draughtsman Mr G A Elliott, Sinking Fund 1923, Culloden Consolidated Company Limited report and accounts for 1920, death of Mrs Sabido, Stann Creek railway, redemption of British Honduras 4% bonds, British Honduras postage stamps, application by Mr L H Ower for post as Government Geologist, pension of Sir Bickham Escott, Belize improvement loan, prospecting licence for Scottish American Oil and Transport Company); Foreign Office (national status of H E and F Oswald, Guatemalan boundary, extradition of Pedro Calderon, incident on the Guatemalan frontier, centenary celebration of political emancipation of Central America, market prices of colonial produce, immigration to British Honduras, national certificate of H E Oswald, legislation regarding the Chinese and Japanese in Central America, revocation of national certificate for H E Oswald, facilities for L H Ower); Home Office (post of Chief Warder for Belize Prison, certificate of naturalisation for Mr A Papadopolo, Mr H Bawdedge embarkation for British Honduras); Medical advisers (W H Hoar); Board of Trade (acquisition of land by aliens, regulations and certification of vessels engaged in coastal and river trade, patent legislation, Ordnance 14 of 1921 regarding coast and river trade, application by Germans for patents and trade marks, illustrated Patents Journal enclosed); Treasury (stands of arms supplied to the colony in 1917); War Office (expenditure incurred in connection with the despatch of troops to Belize in 1919, Lieutenant G F P Worthington West Indies Regiments and his resignation of an appointment to a commission in the Reserve of Officers). Miscellaneous: General Post Office (appointment of Accountant and Chief Clerk, applications for cancelled postage stamps, telegrams to British Honduras charges, revised postal rates, application of H G Jessop for appointment); Imperial Institute (silk grass, conservation and development of mahogany and pine forests); International Health Board (report on hookworm disease in Guatemala with map and photographs); Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau (outfit for L H Omer, draft Mining Ordnance); Petroleum Department (keeping of inflammable liquids in Belize); Honduras Trading Company (contract with United Fruit Company, Riverdale property and sale); Trinity House (lighting of Belize Harbour); Colonial Office (clerk for the Colonial Secretary's office, appointment of Accountant and Chief Clerk of the Post Office at Belize, land transfer surveys, appointment of the Assistant Auditor for British Honduras, sponge fishery investigation); Society of Jesus (United States missionaries); Department of the Colonial Audit (annual abstract account for 1918-19); Scottish American Oil and Transport Company (oil prospecting licence); Ordnance Survey Office (appointment of two junior surveyors); Air Ministry (visit of foreign service aircraft to British possessions); Belize Estate and Produce Company (employment of Mr Hummel, West Indian labour at Fiji). Individuals: Gertrude M Anderson (enquiry regarding Mr George Campbell Anderson); H Bowdedge (accepts the appointment of Chief Warder for the Belize Prison); S Dobell and Sons (Honduras Trading Company); A T Drummond (colonial developments); Mrs J M Furness (cadetship for S A Cuthbert in the Canadian Navy or Australian Navy); J J Franco (eligibility of an alien to hold a seat on the Legislative Council); C Hummel (inaccurate statements by Mr Grabham, combined Forest Department for West Indies); Augustus C Hone (Wellsport Harbour Sennis Bay); Dr George H Lewis (transfer to any medical appointments in Hong Kong or East Africa or West Africa); L H Ower (payment of salary, photographs of railway bridge enclosed); Sir R W Perks (railway development from Belize to Flores-in-Peter); H I Perkins (pension and liability to colonial income tax); Roxburgh and Company (oil concession); Sir R B Roden (arrival on leave, retirement and pension, alimentary allowance); Charles L Ridley (complaint against colonial government); W P Richardson (declines the appointment of Chief Clerk at the Post Office); Rosehaugh Company Limited (oil concession); J A Sabido (advance, return to colony, assisted passages, 'Out of Work Donation Policy' booklet enclosed); C W Taylor (vegetable oil industry); G O D Walton (extension of leave); C S Wilson (Riverdale Estate); S G Warner (widows and orphans scheme); G F P Worthington (claim against the colonial government).