Catalogue description Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)...

Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:

• Crown Agents (crude oil engineers at the Belize Electric Light and Ice Company, pipe water supply for Belize proposal, pensioners resident in the United Kingdom, proposal to appoint a buying agent, proposed loan);
• Foreign Office (emigration of 'negroes' to Honduras, oil exploration in British Honduras and Guatemala);
• Treasury (pension of H Bowdedge);
• War Office (trigonometrical survey).

• Colonial Office (appointment of Mr N S Stevenson the Assistant Conservator of Forests, appointment of Mr T Patterson the Assistant Medical Officer, appointment of Major J E Hoar as Assistant Medical Officer, expedition of Mr Mitchell Hedges and the exclusive right to take photographs);
• Inland Revenue (income tax);
• British Museum (expedition of Mr Mitchell-Hedges, protection of fisheries, Maya site).

• T J Harrison (Governor's baggage held up in Southampton);
• J N Oliphant (Assistant Conservator of Forests, forest officers);
• J N Sabido (grant to establish poultry farms, educational grant for his son).