The Negro World, New York

Date: 25 October 1919 Reference: CO 23/285 (2) Creator: Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies Catalogue context: 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 ... Categories: Colonial and Empire; Overseas Subjects: Air Force; Americas; Armed Forces (General Administration); Banking; Caribbean; Communications; Crown lands and estates; Food and drink; Indian Subcontinent; International; Museums and galleries; Navy; Nursing; Operations, battles and campaigns; Pay and pensions; Policing; Radio and television; Trade and commerce Topics: Agriculture and environment; Arts and culture; British state and citizens; Business, finance and innovation; Health and welfare; International trade and affairs; Land and buildings; Military and war Period: Interwar Places: Americas Copyright information: Copyright clearance for publication is not required, except in the case of documents in third-party copyright. Usage terms: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/use-of-tna-materials.pdf