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 Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (proposed concession to Oil Exploration Company of Canada, Land Regulations Amendment, wireless telegraphy between Trinidad and Venezuela);
• Crown Agents (Floating Dock Agreement and concession, Asphalt Industry Regulations Ordinance, 'coolie' ship Rhine and the landing of rice at St Helena, complaint of Dr F C Shaw, pension of H J Brooks ex-Sergeant of the Police Force of Trinidad, fruit contract, wireless telegraphy between Trinidad and Tobago);
• Emigration Agent at Calcutta (immigrants for Trinidad 1905-06, acquisition of agency premises by the Government of Bengal, W F Bolton as Assistant Emigration Agent);
• Council Office (Orders in Council);
• Home Office (Mines Regulation Ordinance);
• India Office (acquisition of Emigration Agency premises);
• Board of Trade (death of a British subject named Gallivan on Russian ship Hiram, surrender of vessels infringing the revenue laws, Patents Ordinance 1905;
• Treasury (note issue of Union Bank of Halifax, pension of Sergeant Major William George Vogan);
• War Office (army reservists for Mounted Police).

Miscellaneous:

• Imperial Institute (petroleum from Mayaro-Guayaguayare oilfield in Trinidad);
• Railway and Works Company Limited (Floating Dock Agreement, Port of Spain harbour improvement scheme);
• Colonial Office (concession to Oil Exploration Company of Canada, mine explosion at Vista Bella, mail service and the subsidy to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company);
• Inter Departmental Oil Committee (concession to Oil Exploration Company of Canada);
• Customs Office (Crystal Palace Exhibition and customs privileges, surrender of vessels infringing the revenue laws);
• Oil Exploration Company of Canada (establishment of wireless telegraph in Trinidad);
• The Direct West India Cable Company (establishment of wireless telegraphy in Trinidad);
• Symington Syndicate Limited (government grant, assistance, affairs of syndicate);
• Board of Education (Mr Cunningham Craig and the extension of service);
• The New Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company Limited (asphalt and the proposed change in designations, seizure of property of New York and Bermudez Company by Venezuelan Government);
• Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Company Limited (wireless telegraph and the alleged infringement of patent);
• General Post Office (wireless telegraph and the alleged infringement of Marconi Company Patents, between Trinidad and Venezuela, mails per the Scrutton Line);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (mail service, fruit service, wireless telegraph and the infringement of patents);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (pension to Sergeant Major William George Vogan);
• Local Government Board (Quarantine Ordinance);
• His Majesty's Prison, Ipswich (entitlement of pension for Harry J Brooks).

Individuals:

• Lieutenant Colonel H E J Brake (Staff Officer, army reservists for the Constabulary, ex-soldiers for the Constabulary, Mounted Constabulary);
• Archbishop of Canterbury (petition from inhabitants of Basse-Terre for a school house and a salary for the teacher);
• L D Corson (Asphalt Industry Ordinance);
• Alex Cross MP (New Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company concession);
• H Clifford ('colour question');
• Commander W H Coombs (promotion);
• J Cadman (Asphalt Industry Regulations Ordinance);
• J W Gordon (Asphalt Industry Regulations Ordinance);
• Professor H Louis (Asphalt Industry Regulations Ordinance);
• L F Lyder (extension of leave);
• C C F Monckton (Government Electrical Engineer and electrical experts in other colonies, wireless telegraphy between Tobago and Demerara);
• H F Previte (designation of land asphalt);
• Harold Hamel Smith ('The Peasant and the Land');
• T E Young (Widows and Orphans Pension Fund).