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Contains:

(fols. 1-3 and item 1) Antigua and Montserrat: Annual Medical and Sanitary Reports for 1939, 1940
(item 2) St Lucia: Report of the Department of Agriculture for 1939 (38 pp.), 1950
(item 3) St Christopher and Nevis Official Gazette Vol. XXXVII, No. 48 (2 pp.), 10 Oct 1940
(item 4) St Vincent: Report of the Registrar General on the Vital Statistics of the Colony for 1940 (20 pp.), 31 Mar 1941
(items 5-8) Dominica: Draft ordinances [for publication in Official Gazette, Jun 16]: Sale of Produce Ordinance; Deportation (British Subjects) Ordinance; Immigration and Passport Ordinance; Factories Ordinance, Mar-Apr 1941
(fols. 4-11) Antigua: Letters (with copies) from Harold T. Wilson, Magnet Newspaper Office, about conditions in the colony for investigation by the Bureau (see also: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/133, folder 4, fols. 24-25), 25 Apr 1941-18 Oct 1942
(fols. 12-17) St Lucia: Notes on certain legislation in 1940 (two copies), [1942]
(fols. 18-21) St Kitts-Nevis Trades and Labour Union: Press reports of Resolutions rescinding a wartime anti-strike Resolution (19 Jan 1941) and calling a strike on estates run by the St Christopher Sugar Producers' Association; and a related communiqué, 3-17 Jul 1943
(fol. 22) St Vincent: Recommendations of the St Vincent's People's Constitutional Reform Committee quoting proposals for the Federation of the Leeward and Windward Islands, 27 Oct-3 Nov 1944
(fols. 23-55) Colonial Office Information Sheets about, inter alia, proposals for closer union (1946); sugar strikes and the sugar industry in the Leeward Islands (1948); the reconstruction of Castries after the 1948 fire; the resignation of Earl Baldwin as Governor (1950); and constitutional changes in the Windward Islands (1950), Mar 1946-Dec 1949
(fols. 56-60) Leeward Islands: Draft Trade Unions (Amendment) Act, and a copy of a related letter from D.R. Rees-Williams to F.W. Skinnard, MP (see also: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/142, 1B, fols. 7-11), 20 Nov 1947-16 Mar 1948
(fols. 61-89) St Lucia: Report of the Labour Department for 1947-1948, [1949]
(item 9) Montserrat: Plans for Development and Welfare (17 pp. + appendices), [1949]
(items 10-11) St Kitts-Nevis Trades and Labour Union: Report of the Executive Committee to the 10th and 11th Annual Conference (34 and 25 pp.), 23 Oct 1949
(fol. 90) Crown Agents for the Colonies Information Sheet about plans for the rebuilding of Castries, 6 Jan 1950
(fol. 91 and item 12) 'The Truth about 'Operation Blackburne'' by C.A. Paul Southwell (22 pp.); with complimentary slip, 25 Jan 1951.