Preliminary arrangements for the Commission: correspondence, notes, and memoranda, Feb-Dec 1947

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(fols. 1-2) copy of telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of British Honduras (Belize), Edward Gerald Hawkesworth, requesting material and information about the colony on behalf of the Commission, and suggestions for an itinerary, 5 Feb 1947
(fol. 3) letter from Mackintosh, Colonial Office, to Mitchell, intended to accompany material forwarded from British Honduras (Belize) (copy). Of the dispersed enclosures, the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Maya Welfare referred to is in folder 5, 3 Apr 1947
(fol. 4) letter from Seel, Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Colonial Office, to Greenidge about information received from the Governor of British Honduras (Belize) about Johnson grass, and about a sugar factory in the colony, 30 Apr 1947
(fol. 5) letter from Beckett, Colonial Office, to Evans about the needs of the Maya people in British Honduras (Belize) (copy), 13 Jun 1947
(fol. 6) letter from [Mackintosh?] to Evans about a development scheme submitted by John Thomas, Jul 1947
(fols. 7-9) letter from Harkness to Arthur Norman Wolffson, Acting Governor of British Honduras (Belize), about Hawkesworth's illness, the Commission's programme, and accommodation problems; enclosing an itinerary based on the advice of Robert Johns, Agricultural Advisor; and requesting that Alan F.A. Lamb, Conservator of Forests, should accompany the Commission on tour, Oct 1947
(fols. 10-12) letter from Lamb to Evans enclosing maps and statistics for the Commission's use, prepared by the Agricultural, Forest, and Survey Departments, 4 Nov 1947
(fols. 13-14) revised itinerary for Commission in British Honduras (Belize), 6 Nov 1947
(fols. 15-20) Bibliography of Publications and Reports on the Agricultural and Forest Resources of British Honduras (Belize), 1947
(fols. 21-28) memorandum by R.S. Turton, MLC (Member of the Legislative Council) timber and commission agent, to the Settlement Commission, mainly on agricultural, industrial, and economic matters, and the type of immigrant required in the colony, 4 Dec 1947
(item 1) notebook containing notes by Greenidge on an interview with G.C.R. Sharp about his visit to British Honduras (Belize) in 1928, his land purchases and agricultural activities in the colony, and its market outlets; with comments on the Stann Creek and Corozal Districts, landownership, soil, agricultural possibilities, and the Cassava factory, 1947.

Dates

Creation: Feb-Dec 1947

Extent

28 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 285/18, folder 3

Additional Description

Related Materials

See also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 285/14 and 22, folder 2, fols. 1-7; see MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 285/22, folder 2, fols. 23-25, for a letter from Greenidge to Hawkesworth dated 10 Feb; see also MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 285/14, folder 2, fols. 24-25; and MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 285/18, folder 6.