Acts, sessional papers, government gazettes, confidential print and other papers from the dominions relating to a range of legislative business carried out by the local governments in these countries. Sessional papers may include records of legislative assemblies, legislative councils and reports from departments or commissions. Records of legislative assemblies include transcriptions of proclamations, lists of committee members, and notes of papers and reports presented and on the passing of bills through the houses. Volumes usually contain contents lists and indexes to the proceedings. Records of legislative councils are bound volumes of agenda and minutes of procedure. They give dates of council meetings, a list of those present and statements of resolutions taken. Where the legislative council was an elected body, there are records of assembly and prorogation, reports on divisions, abstracts of petitions, transcriptions of proclamations, notices of papers presented and of questions, and notes of motions and orders of the day. Also included are registers of bills, lists of members, and statistics showing the attendance of members. Volumes usually contains a contents list and indexes to the minutes of proceedings. Reports and papers were presented to both houses by departments and commissions. They provide descriptions and statistics recording all aspects of government activity in such areas as: public revenue; the judiciary; communications; population; crime; public works; public health; police; agriculture, ecology, and meteorological observations. Many maps, plans, graphs and illustrations are included. Volumes usually contain a contents list and index. Government gazettes were the official newspapers produced by most colonies and dominions. They provide information on a variety of subjects including the economy, population, government, sanitation, communications, meteorology and crime. They include minutes and proclamations by the governor; notices of appointments; texts of ordinances and acts, and various notices, for example of sales of lands and development plans (with sketch maps). Private advertisements are included, which record grants of probate and insolvencies. The gazettes also include calls for tenders and tables of government accounts. Other statistical reports may be included which have information on births and deaths, incidence of disease, and weather observations. The gazettes may also include supplements, for example recording the appointment of local officials.may include supplements recording such matters as elections and the appointment of officials. Issues usually have their own contents list and most volumes are indexed by subject and name. Comprises records for the following countries: Africa, South, High Commission, DO 91 Africa, South, Union of, DO 11-DO 13, DO 77, DO 116 Africa, South West, DO 78, DO 110 Alberta, DO 14, DO 95 Australia, Commonwealth of, DO 15-DO 18, DO 79, DO 115 Australia, Northern, DO 108 Australia, South, DO 19-DO 21, DO 80 Australia, Western, DO 22-DO 24, DO 98 Basutoland, DO 25, DO 92, DO 145, DO 150 Bechuanaland Protectorate, DO 26, DO 102, DO 145, DO 150 British Indian Ocean Territory, DO 151 Canada, DO 27-DO 30 Cape of Good Hope, DO 31, DO 32 Ceylon, DO 104, DO 109, DO 111 Columbia, British, DO 33, DO 34 Dominions, DO 114 Federation of the West Indies, DO 136, DO 139 Ghana, DO 132, DO 138 India, DO 105, DO 112, DO 148 Irish Free State, DO 37, DO 99, DO 100 Manitoba, DO 38, DO 96 Natal, DO 39, DO 40 Nauru, DO 83 New Brunswick, DO 43, DO 137 Newfoundland, DO 41, DO 42, DO 84 New Guinea, DO 85 New South Wales, DO 44-DO 47 New Zealand, DO 48-DO 51 Norfolk Island, DO 135 Nova Scotia, DO 52, DO 124 Ontario, DO 53, DO 54 Orange Free State, DO 55, DO 56 Order of St. Michael and St. George, DO 89 Pakistan, DO 106, DO 149 Papua, DO 86, DO 97 Prince Edward Island, DO 58, DO 87 Quebec, DO 59, DO 94 Queensland, DO 60-DO 62, DO 103 Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation of, DO 123, DO 125, DO 129 Rhodesia, Southern, DO 7, DO 8, DO 63-DO 65, DO 88, DO 122 Samoa, Western, DO 107, DO 113 Saskatchewan, DO 66, DO 90 Swaziland, DO 67, DO 93, DO 145, DO 150 Tanzania, DO 146, DO 147 Tasmania, DO 68-DO 71 Transkeian Territories, DO 101 Transvaal, DO 72, DO 73 Victoria, DO 74-DO 76.
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The major part of this series ( T 188/1 -262) consists of official and semi-official papers accumulated by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross during the period 1921 to 1946. These mainly relate to international economic affairs, including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). The latter part of this series ( T 188/263 -326) consists of Leith-Rosss official, semi-official and private correspondence, and diaries. The correspondence includes papers from his time as Private Secretary to Asquith, from the period of the First World War, and concerning aspects of international economics between 1922 and 1945. There is also a considerable amount of family, private and miscellaneous correspondence dated between 1911 and 1968. Leith-Ross had a world-wide circle of friends and acquaintances and among those represented in his correspondence are Dean Acheson, Lord Butler, Hugh Dalton, Lewis Douglas, Lord Franks, Sir Edmund Hall-Patch, Lord Hankey, Sir Ralph Hawtrey, Sir Roy Harrod, Lord Keynes, Per Jacobsson, Fiorello La Guardia, Sir Ronald Lindsay, Oliver Lyttelton (Lord Chandos), Philip Noel Baker, Lord Norman, Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, John G Winant. The diaries, which cover the periods 1913 to 1915 and 1923 to 1968, mainly record his engagements, though the early diaries occasionally contain more detailed entries.
This series consists mainly of narratives of events or Blue Books, prepared from primary sources to be used as a framework for writing the military histories. Some of these were prepared by respective Commonwealth Historical Sections and used in the British volumes. There are also some draft chapters of war histories of the First World War. Most of the papers relate to the First and Second World Wars, although there are also files on German East Africa, 1884-1911, relations between Great Britain, Italy and the Senussi, 1912-1924; the occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1929 and of Constantinople 1918-1923.
This series relates to matters affecting West Africa as a whole and to the particular countries in the region for which Great Britain had sole responsibility or shared responsibility with France, namely: the Cameroons, Gambia, the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togoland.
This series contains sessional papers from Tanganyika.
Name Allen, Frederick Kenneth. Rank: Temporary Lieutenant. Number: 1105. Place of Birth: Apia, Samoa. Date of Birth: 21 January 1889.
PACIFIC 1. Views of Pitcairn Island, Tonga, Niue, Samoa, Union Island, Ellice Islands, Ocean Island, Nauru and Solomon Islands, 1912-1953.
This series contains original correspondence relating to Nigeria.
This series contains registers of correspondence relating to Tanganyika.
This series contains registers of correspondence relating to West Africa.
No. of Company: 109014; Upolu Rubber and Cacao Estates Limited. Incorporated in 1910. Dissolved in 1948.
This series consists of documents removed from the general series of War Office registered files ( WO 32 ) because they were of continuing sensitivity at the time of the transfer of the majority of the files to the Public Record Office. They cover such subjects as espionage, Ireland, German East Africa, mutinies and courts martial.
Victoria Cross details of Butler, John Fitzhardinge Paul. Rank: Captain. Regiment: The Kings Royal Rifle Corps, attached Pioneer Company, Gold Coast Regiment, West African Frontier Force. Date of Act Of Bravery: 17 November 1914. Campaign: 1914-1918 War. Locale: Cameroons, West Africa.
TANZANIA / TANGANYIKA 1. Government House, Dar es Salaam, photographs 1922, together with panoramas of Kigoma 1914/17 and a view of Dar es Salaam Harbour, 1938.
Reports on the administration of Nauru 1920-1938.
West Africa: part of a map. Scale: 1 inch to about 250 miles. MS additions, coloured, show French and British mandates, the areas ceded to Germany in 1911 and restored to France under the Treaty of Versailles [1919], and the area south-east of Lake Chad ceded to France in 1911 The areas shown are now in Cameroon and parts of Chad and Nigeria.
Tanganyika Territory: Mpapua Sheet D5 GSGS 3026.
Operations in German East Africa: advance of First East African Brigade to Rufiji river: diary extracts, correspondence, comments with sketch plans, maps and original panoramas: Nigerian contingent, 1916-1917.
Company number: 104328; German South West Africa Diamond Exploration Company Ltd. Incorporated 1909. Liquidators Accounts on the dissolution of the company at some point between 1909 and 1932.
Company No: 104328; German South West Africa Diamond Exploration Company Ltd. Incorporated in 1909. Dissolved between 1916 and 1932.
Petition by Mama Kadra, Sudanee of Dar es Salaam, claiming certain monies due from military authorities.
Company No: 128079; Kamerun Mining Company Ltd. Incorporated in 1913. Dissolved between 1916 and 1932.
Company number: 72169; Upolu Cacao Company Ltd. Incorporated 1901. Liquidators Accounts on the dissolution of the company at some point between 1901 and 1932.
Company No: 84677; Togo Spinning Company Ltd. Incorporated in 1905. Dissolved between 1916 and 1932.
Company No: 171310; Cameroon Plantations and Trading Company, Ltd. Incorporated in 1920. Dissolved between 1920 and 1932.
Admiralty Chart 1357: River Benin to River Cameroons including the Mouths of the River Kwara or Niger. Engraved. 1:610,000. Insets ofSanta Isabel and Adjacent Bays, 1:12,500 and `San Carlos Bay, 1:128,300, on Fernando Po ORDER THIS DOCUMENT AS CO 1O47/243.
Company number: 128079; Kamerun Mining Company Ltd. Incorporated 1913. Liquidators Accounts on the dissolution of the company at some point between 1913 and 1932.
Expeditions: British Museum Expedition to East Africa.
COUNTRIES. Western Pacific: Nauru Island; (1) Estimate; (2) Cost of Garrison Wireless Station; staff at.
Africa: correspondence relating to the Belgian claims in respect of permanent improvements effected in that part of the former German East Africa which was transferred from Belgian to British administration in 1920, 1919-1929.
Belgian claims in respect of permanent improvements effected in that part of the former German East Africa which was transferred from Belgian to British Administration in 1920; correspondence (92 pages).
Admiralty Chart 664: `Zanzibar to Malindi. Engraved. [About 6.5 miles to an inch], with MS additions showing rock and shoal.
Admiralty Chart 664: `Zanzibar to Malindi. Engraved. [About 6.5 miles to an inch].
Admiralty Chart 664: `Zanzibar to Malindi.
This series contains registers of correspondence from the High Commission for South Africa.
This series contains registers of correspondence relating to Cameroons.
This series contains registers of out-letters relating to Tanganyika.
Karagwe Sheet A2 GSGS 3026.
This series contains registers of out-letters relating to Cameroons.