Contents listed on cover as follows: Colonial Office testimonials Crown Agents Governor Windward Isles Administrator St Vincent Treasury St Vincent Official Invitations, etc.

There is much correspondence between Thacker and the Governor about: changes in legal procedure (fols. 181-182, 164) the question of Thacker's transfer (fols. 161-162, 152, 150, 104, 106, 70) reasons for not appointing the Chief Justice as Acting Administrator (fols. 47-64). Also, correspondence with the Colonial Treasurer and...

This folder contains memoranda by Thacker on: the suggested amalgamation of Judicial Systems of the Windward and Leeward Islands the suggested Crown Attorney-Magistrate arrangement the suggested alteration of the Jury System (fols. 139-157). There is much correspondence (fols. 1-75) connected with the sale, packing, and shipping of...

The earliest papers in this folder, which are in a damaged condition, are connected with St Vincent. The rest relate to Thacker's appointment as Attorney-General of Fiji and his leave in England, during which he undertook legal work at the Colonial Office; there are manuscript notes and excerpts from legal documents concerning colonial constitutions, the power of the Crown to revoke such constitutions once granted, the question 'Was British token silver legal tender for any amount in the...

Testimonials from firms who had employed Thacker (British Metal Corporation, Petroleum Securities Corporation, F.J. Edwards, Ltd., General Mining and Finance Corporation, Associated Anglo-Atlantic Corporation, Petroleum Conversion Corporation) and from others (H.P. Hinds, Sir Walter Greaves-Lord, Herbert Metcalfe, David Owen Evans, S.J. Panchaud, Robert Mathias, Graham Grant) in support of his application for a legal appointment in the Colonial Service. At the end of 1930, he was appointed...

Correspondence with the Crown agents for the Colonies and the Colonial Office about transport for himself, his wife, three children, and household effects to St Vincent, and about educational facilities for the children.

Letters from the Administrator, Major H.W. Peebles, about Thacker's arrival on St Vincent.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, chiefly about social events, including invitations from Government House and from HMS Rodney, Dauntless, Hood, and Repulse; frequent correspondence between Thacker and the Administrator; monthly receipts from the Treasury for the rent of Judge's Lodge, and correspondence about upkeep of house and grounds. Other correspondents include the following: M. Byron Cox,...