SIR,
I
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Enclosure 2 in No. 180.
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•
EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM MR. C. W. MEYER TO THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Arima, 11th August, 1916.
HAVE a charge
amount of $6,440-11, on "Springhill" to the (£1,341 138. 4d.), being the past accumulated profits of the last nineteen years, this money bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, which I draw monthly. The balance of $17,84174 is the present value of "Springhill" to my father. There is a mortgage on Springhill" of $12,000, which was borrowed from the Bernard family to buy "Valley Vale" estate, the interest on which is paid
by "Valley Vale.”
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My brother, Dr. Meyer, is in possession of "Valley Vale" estate under similar conditions. Sharing half of the yearly profits, his accumulations amount only to $427-80; the present value to my father of this estate being $5,619-69, excluding of course the principal of Bernard's mortgage of $12,000, which gives "Valley Vale"
a capital value of $18,045-49.
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P. F. Collignon
(8) These are business houses, which give a gross yearly revenue of £2,087 10s.
(2) "La Victoria" has also a lime cultivation, which yielded 1684 barrels in 1915. (4) Mr. Collignon's estate is the possession of the mortgagees. (1) This is not a cocoa estate, but nurseries of plants. Revenue (1915), £150.
Colonial Treasury,
Port of Spain,
18th October, 1916.
D. SLYNE,
Receiver-General,
Chairman, Liquidating Committee.
*The valuations given of these three properties are those of Neubauer, but Mr. Carl de Verteuil, the manager, values them now as follows:-Sin Verguenza ($12,000), Boconusco (£10,416 18s. 4d.), and the buildings in Port of Spain
(£20,833 6s. 8d.).
The other valuations are fair.
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"Los Amigos"...
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F. W. Meyer
"Springhill"... "Valley Vale"...
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Arima
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"La Puerta " (4)
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C. W. MEYER,
No. 181.
JAMAICA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 1.20 a.m., 5th December, 1916.)
(Paraphrase.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 184.]
4TH DECEMBER. Your telegram 24th November* and mine of following day.t Wessels & Nephew is the only firm at present whom it is intended to liquidate.— MANNING.
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No. 182.
TRINIDAD.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Confidential.)
(Received 1st January, 1917.)
[Answered by No. 183.]
Government House, 8th December, 1916.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential despatch of the 26th of Octobert regarding the liquidation of enemy firms in Trinidad.
2. As regards your proposal that the sale of enemy cocoa estates should not be deferred, I concur that all enemy estates should be included in the sale with the exception of those belonging to Mr. F. W. Meyer, in regard to which the circumstances are peculiar. Mrs. Meyer by origin is a British subject, and most, if not all, of her children are natural-born British subjects. Mrs. Meyer and her children are wholly dependent on the income derived from the cocoa estates in question; and if those estates are disposed of some allowance would have to be made to them by Government. Mrs. Meyer and her children have behaved with absolute correctness in their relations with the Liquidating Committee, and there In these is no reason to regard Mr. Meyer as a financial or political danger. circumstances I recommend that the Meyer family be allowed to remain in possession of the estates for the present.
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