Catalogue description Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William Lamond...

Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Despatches from Governor Sir William Lamond Allardyce (1919 Nov-Dec), together with letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals (1919), most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in this volume and CO 23/284. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices and Individuals is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments): Admiralty (inefficiency of the wireless station, yachts Ranger and Coraline, vacancies for wireless telegraph operators); Crown Agents (Mrs. Connors' separation allowance, Charge Nurse M Senior, sponge industry); Foreign Office (Rev Chrysostom Schreiner, searching of British vessels for liquor in Florida); Board of Trade (lighted buoy to mark Matanilla Schoal [reef] in the Florida Strait, expenses incurred due to Free at Last); Treasury (salary of governor, importation of British currency notes from New York); Archbishop of Canterbury (Bishop of Nassau); Colonial Office (Colonial Research Committee grant for sponge investigation, grant of Crown Land to Major F Lister for a hotel); Department of Overseas Trade (salt industry at Inagua); Aerial Register & Gazette (proposal for aerial transport between the Bahamas and Florida); Air Ministry (aerial service between the Bahamas and Florida); British Museum, Natural History (proposed sponge investigation, L R Crawshay's appointment to investigate sponges); East Riding Territorial Force Association (appointment of W Spooner as Sergeant Major in the Bahamas Police Force); The Overseas Nursing Association (recommends Evangeline Petty for appointment as charge nurse); West India Cable Company (wireless communication with Jamaica); Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (galvanised wire for use in artificial sponge culture); Individuals: Charles J Ackrill (complaint against Bahamian traders); Sir William Allandyce (arrival on leave, salary, vessel for Bishop of Nassau, purchase of Crown Land); Cole, Dickin & Hills (sponge industry); L R Crawshay (appointment as sponge investigation research officer, sponge industry); Major F V Lister (purchase of Crown Land); Alice Menendez (Rev Chrysostom Schreiner, statement against the annexation of Bahamas to the United States); Preece, Cardew, Snell & Rider [consulting engineers] (improvement of Nassau wireless station); A C Roessler (sale of war stamps); Short Brothers [Aeronautical Engineers] (purchase of an island or islands); Major E C Sherman (grant of land to ex-officers); Captain A Swinton (aerial transport between Florida and the Bahamas); Charles Sidney Thompson (complaint against the postmaster in Nassau)