Item CO 111/627 - Correspondence from Individuals on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:...

Correspondence from Individuals on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Mr J P Auld (employment in British Guiana); Mr E R Anson (application for addition of war bonus to his pension); Mr P Bunyan (petition for reinstatement [not in volume]); Lord Balfour (financial aid to churches in British Guiana); Miss Cicely Blyth (tenders her resignation from the post of clerical assistant, Treasury, as she is now under contract with the American Expeditionary Forces and serving in France); Joseph Boyce (application for assistance pending settlement of his claim against the German Government concerning his internment in Ruhleben); A Gerald Biden (accepts appointment as auditor); Captain P E F Cressall (applies for post of Assistant District Commissioner in German East Africa [Tanganyika]; states willingness to accept other positions); Mrs Annie Isabel Cameron (requests outstanding salary of her late husband; asks why monies due are not now owing to her; submits claim for $144 of the $168 in the hands of the Public Trustee); Sir John Cadman (oil concession to D Elliott Alves [with printed copy of agreement]; grant of exploration licence to Mr Cannon); Mr H C F Cox (applies for a legal appointment and requests extension of leave; tenders his resignation; gives reason for resignation and requests interview); Sir Wilfred Collet, Governor of British Guiana (bauxite concessions; requests meeting with Secretary of State for delegation from British Guiana; requests meeting with Mr Montague or Lord Sinha; lighting of Georgetown Harbour; salary and pension for Mr T A Pope, Principal of Queen's College; deputation to India; post of Assistant to Attorney General; salary due to the late H A Cameron; possible migration of 'coloured' men now in UK [with names of 266 individuals willing to emigrate]; provision of merchant shipping for the colony; purchase of Demerara Railway by Government; colonial loans); Charles H Cyrus (petition against British Guiana Government); Mr J H Conyers (application for passage); Lieutenant Lionel S Davis (requests release from Army; departure for British Guiana and application for post of Commissary of Taxation); Sir W E Davidson (forwards letter from E C Buck applying for promotion); Mr A J Drummond (development of British Guiana; construction of railway system [with map showing proposed first lines]; Demerara Company Limited (excess profits tax and repatriation of demobilised soldiers); E Mortimer Duke (forwards petition from merchant seamen J O Peazer, Henry Christy and Charles Jones requesting war service gratuity); Lieutenant Colonel J O'D Egan (re-employment while on pension); Dr J W Evans (bauxite [with extract from The Mining Journal , 20 December 1919]); Mr R M Fraser (position in Colonial Service); Colonel Claude Francis (increase of pension); Reverend A Fleming (financial aid to the churches); Mrs B Francis (increase of pension for Colonel Francis); Mr J Gilmour (financial aid to the churches); Mr C B Hamilton (accounts and report of Demerara Railway Company); Mr C W E Humphreys (re-employment in Colonial Survey Department); Mr J K D Hill (intends to retire and seeks information regarding pension); Mr H W Humphrys (seeks colonial appointment); Mr W C Harragin (applies for refund of income tax and seeks assistance in securing payment of debt); Henri George Heimberg (is about to be extradited from Siam to Straits Settlements, refers to his services to the Allies in British Guiana and seeks pardon [in French; with photograph of Heimberg]); Captain T H Iriving (application for transfer); Major W F Law (asks if pension will be affected if he takes up further employment; explains that he has been offered employment on a Medical Board); Captain E P Minett (seeks promotion); Mr T B MacQuaide (seeks transfer to an African colony); Mr A L Mansfield (application for a colonial appointment; application for re-employment; application for post in West Africa or West Indies; requests decision against further employment may be reconsidered); Reverend R L MacNie (financial aid to the churches); Mr E R D Moulder (application for post of Principal, Queen's College); Sir W D Mercer (appointment to 'Voting Trust' of British Controlled Oilfields Ltd); Nicholson

The National Archives >> Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies >> Correspondence with the colonies, entry books and registers of correspondence >> Colonial Office and predecessors: British Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo, Original Correspondence

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