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 during 1906. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (licence to Trinidad Petroleum Company Limited, concession to Oil Exploration Company Canada);
• Crown Agents (fruit trade and contract with the British West Indies Fruit Company, General Loan and Inscribed Stock Ordinance and the Public Works Loan Ordinance, currency investment and depreciation funds);
• Emigration Agent at Calcutta (Report on Emigration from Calcutta 1906, Accounts of Agency 1906-07);
• Council Office (proclamation that the doubloon shall cease to be a legal tender of the colony of Trinidad and Tobago);
• Foreign Office (alleged ill-treatment of miners at El Callas, Venezuelan affairs and message to the United States Congress, commercial convention with France, alleged ill-treatment of labourers at El Callas, improvement of trade with Venezuela, claim of V L Samberson, alleged acquisition of HMS Pallas, claim of Louis Walker against Venezuela, alleged ill-treatment of British subjects at El Callas mine, General Report on Venezuela, Trinidad labourers in El Callas mines, sinking of SS Whitney by Venezuelan gunboat Zumbador, relations with Venezuela, Isthmian Canal Commission at Panama, plague precautions by Venezuela, plague communication between Venezuela and Trinidad, mutiny of SS Canada, communication between Trinidad and Venezuela, claims of V L Samberson against Venezuela, wireless telegraphy with Venezuela, labourers for Panama, wireless telegraphy with Venezuela);
• Home Office (Explosives Ordinance, Mines Regulation Ordinance, work of Mines Department, extension of Mr Cadman's service);
• India Office (amalgamation of emigration agencies, appointment of Bryce C Burt);
• Parliament (Indian immigration, recruitment of labour for Panama, labour for Panama Canal, Customs Tariff Commission, reduction of duty on matches);
• Board of Trade (Copyright Ordinance 1907, Bankruptcy Ordinance 1907);
• Treasury (demonetisation of doubloon, currency note issue and reserve fund);
• War Office (Captain E L Wheeler, Lieutenant Colonel H E J Brake).

Miscellaneous:

• Royal Irish Constabulary (instruction for T S Warner, musketry standard of police officers);
• Colonial Office (wireless telegraphy, municipal government at Port of Spain, Revenue, Expenditure and Trade 1892-1905, financial position, local government, administration of government);
• General Post Office (wireless telegraphy between Trinidad and Tobago);
• Law Society (results of law examination);
• Board of Education (Mr Cunningham Craig's pension);
• British Cotton Grown Association (Tobago steamer service);
• Local Government Board (Quarantine Bill).

Individuals:

• B C Burt (resignation of his appointment as Assistant Analyst and Science Master);
• F R A Browne (extension of leave);
• E H Cunningham Craig (his return passage to England, termination of engagement and pension, oilfields of Trinidad and report on central anticline);
• J Cadman (Honorarium and Mines Department);
• Mrs W Francis (petition for assistance);
• R P Gibbes (cost of immigration, appointment as Immigration Agent for British Guiana and Natal);
• A Hinds (petition for a pension in respect of service in Fire Brigade);
• Sir H M Jackson (leave and salary, concession to the Oil Exploration Company of Canada, extension of leave, telephone system, mail service, services of Lieutenant Colonel Brake);
• Dr G L Labour (Tobago steamer service);
• W Leslie (resignation of his post as Senior Agricultural Instructor);
• C C F Monckton (wireless telegraphy);
• C J Milne (extension of scholarship, application for medical appointment);
• H R Marwood (application as Director of Public Works, appointment);
• A E Milne (extension of scholarship);
• Sir A E Northcote (pension of transferred officers);
• Captain E L Wheeler (resignation of his post as Staff Officer of the Local Forces);
• T S Warner (leave salary and furniture allowance);
• W Wrightson (pension);
• T E Young (widows and orphans fund valuation and report).