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Contains 78 Results:
Copy of a letter from Eales [to Council members?] enclosing fol. 152 and the Crown Agents' reply that, lacking further instructions, they assume rest houses can be used, 2 and 4 Jul 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 155-156
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
2 and 4 Jul 1912
Copies of minutes of the Council meeting and memoranda considered at it, 13 and 15 Jul 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 157-163
Includes:
(fols. 160-163) minutes of the Council meeting
(fol. 157) memoranda, including Bastard and Trigge's review of problems with the Mining Medical Department
(fols. 158-159) relations between the London and local Nigerian Chambers of Mines.
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates:
13 and 15 Jul 1912
Copy of a letter from H.J. Read, the Under-S/S Col., asking Eales for particulars of the government railway rates to which the Nigerian Chamber of 'Commerce' [for 'Mines'] object, 24 Jul 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fol. 164
Copy of letter from W.R. Rumbold [to Eales?] pointing out the care with which the local Chamber's Sub-Committee revised the mining law; and the Nigerian Chamber's disregard of its draft, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fol. 165
Copy of the Agenda, with additional manuscript notes by Scarbrough's copies of the Council Meeting minutes, 27 and 31 Jul 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 166-173
At which fol. 153 [wrongly dated in minute reference] and fol. 164 were considered; also, duplicate of the adopted resolution about medical attendance.
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates:
27 and 31 Jul 1912
Copy of a letter from W.F. Moore, for the Secretaries, West African Mines Ltd., to the Nigerian Chamber of Mines, 8 Aug 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 174-175
About delays in securing mining leases due to the Crown Agents' requirement of additional guarantees.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
8 Aug 1912
Copies of two letters from Eales to members of the Chamber of Mines communicating the Council meeting's resolutions, 16 Aug 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 176-177
About:
maintenance of a register of shipping marks for tin concentrates
the need to recognise a normal standard of wages for labour instead of competing.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
16 Aug 1912
Cover note from Eales to Scarbrough with the local Chamber's draft Minerals Proclamation [fols. 101-115?] for his observations, 17 Aug 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fol. 178
Letters about the dissolution and reconstitution of the Chamber of Mines in Nigeria, 20 and 21 Aug 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 179-182
Letters exchanged between:
(fol. 179) Oliver Wethered
(fol. 181) Scarbrough (draft)
(fols. 180, 182) annexed copies of cables exchanged with the local Chamber.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
20 and 21 Aug 1912
Copy for Scarbrough of circular from Eales to Chamber members on the London Council's proposed reorganisation of the Chamber of Mines in Nigeria into a Local Council appointed by the London Chamber, 21 Aug 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 183-184
Letter from Wethered to Scarbrough, approving of the cabled [fol. 182] reply to the local Chamber in Nigeria, 23 Aug 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fol. 185
Copy for members of a letter from G.R. Nicolaus to Eales proposing amendments in the Local Council's organisation, 26 Aug 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fol. 186
Copies for members of Eales's cover note with a letter from the Crown Agents to Eales about cabling messages to the Chief Secretary, Zungeru, 29 and 30 Aug 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 187-188
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
29 and 30 Aug 1912
Cover note from Eales to members of the Chamber forwarding to them copies of Sir Frederick Lugard's notes and comments on the draft Minerals Ordinance with his covering letter to Scarbrough, 31 Aug; 2 Sep 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 189-207
Also, the original manuscript letter and notes [see also MSS. Afr. s. 87, fols. 534-535].
Extents: 19 Leaves
Dates:
31 Aug; 2 Sep 1912
Circularised letter from Frank N. Best to the Council, 2 Sep 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 208-211
Drawing on his recent Nigerian experiences to stress the essentials for developing mineral wealth of cheap, reliable transport and cheap, abundant fuel, and outlining a plan for a railway linking the coal deposits at Udi with the lead-silver and tin deposits.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
2 Sep 1912
Letter from Eales informing Scarbrough of his absence, 5 Sep 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fol. 212
Copy of agenda for meeting of 20 Sep, cover note and comments, 11 and 12 Sep 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 213-233
Includes:
(fol. 228) agenda
(fol. 233) cover note from Eales to Scarbrough.
With:
(fols. 213-215) from Harry W. Lake
(fols. 229-231) from F.N. Best
together with (fols. 216-227) from H. Bertram Bateman of Pellew-Harvey, these...
Extents: 21 Leaves
Dates:
11 and 12 Sep 1912
Copies of a covering letter from Wethered, Best, and Lake to Eales enclosing their 'Suggested Rules and Regulations for the Guidance of the local Council', 19 Sep 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 234-235
Includes:
(fol. 234) covering letter
(fol. 235) 'Suggested Rules and Regulations for the Guidance of the local Council'.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
19 Sep 1912
Copy of Chairman's Agenda, manuscript notes, and minutes of Council meeting, 19 and 20 Sep 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 236-252
Includes:
(fols. 237-238) copy of the Chairman's Agenda
(fol. 239) Scarbrough's manuscript notes on it
(fols. 241-247) copies of Minutes of the Council meeting
(fols. 248-250) a list of members of the Chambers
(fols. 251-252) notes on the meeting
(fol. 236) copy of local Chamber's cable, considered at the meeting,...
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates:
19 and 20 Sep 1912
Letter from Trigge to Scarbrough, enclosing copies of five letters to the Chamber of Mines, with notes of action taken over each, 2, 25-26, and 30 Sep 1912
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 90, fols. 253-259
(fol. 259) Letter, enclosing:
(fol. 253) the Budurua Co.'s explanation of their wage increase for labourers
(fol. 254) a Colonial Office comment on disputed government railway rates
(fol. 255) the Crown Agents on cabling messages to Zungeru
(fol. 256) F.N. Best, proposing a Government Notice refusing or cancelling licences to companies raising labourers'...
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates:
2, 25-26, and 30 Sep 1912