Provident Fund Accounts

Box 1: 2 volumes of Accounts and Letters, conserved into one box of 3 files Folder 1, 88f: Includes receipts for War Bonds and cashed HSBC cheques; wartime correspondence from dependents of those interned in Hong Kong, or killed 1:88 List naming dependants including date of death of CNCo 'Floating...

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Date(s) of creation: 1942-1945
Level: Sub-Sub-Series
Format: Archive           

Summary: Box 1: 2 volumes of Accounts and Letters, conserved into one box of 3 files Folder 1, 88f: Includes receipts for War Bonds and cashed HSBC cheques; wartime correspondence from dependents of those interned in Hong Kong, or killed 1:88 List naming dependants including date of death of CNCo 'Floating' Staff and the amounts to be allocated from the Provident Fund 1:48 particularly moving, to 'Darling Elsie' from Hope and Wilhelmina Hospital, Amoy (Xiamen), from David Peoples (Dad) 1:74-1:80 copy of amended 'Regulations as to The John Swire & Sons Savings Fund', Mar 1938 Folder 2 129f: Correspondence with various banks regarding payments; and with persons holding policies regarding payments. Arranged in alphabetical order of correspondent under the firm concerned - Butterfield & Swire; China Navigation Company; Refinery and Dockyard War Bonds Accounts Folder 3 China Navigation Company: Butterfield & Swire Bombay and Sydney to John Swire & Sons Box 2 Folder 1 Refinery and Dockyard: John Swire & Sons to Butterfield & Swire Bombay and Sydney Includes lists of Members' Sterling balances, by name 1:24-28 Names, dates of joining, pay per month and remarks on mostly locally engaged Western staff 1:48 index (mostly unused) Box 2 Folder 2 China Navigation Company Provident Fund Letters: John Swire & Sons to Butterfield & Swire Bombay and Sydney re Floating Staff, mostly concerned with interned men, deaths and resignations affect on pension payments due 2:49 HOIHOW and death of Captain Christie on a raft 2:68-69 and 2:71-72 List of CNCo employees by vessel with amounts due to each to Mar 1944 and May 1944 2:99 List of Pensions due 31 May including vessel each individual is on, with notes of deaths of J Sim on NANNING and RK Burns on CHENGTU who died in detention 2:122, 2:164 B&S (India) to JSS London re Interned Men, including list of vessels captured and some notes of staff on boards 2:147-149 Staff lost by enemy action Box 2 Folder 3 3:10-12 Alphabetical list of B&S Provident Fund Balances, 31 Dec 1943 and 3:65-66 Jun 1942 3:13 Index to House and OPCo Provident Funds Correspondence between Bombay and Sydney 3:43 Statement of Assets, 31 Mar 1945 3:56 List of men serving 2 Nov 1945 3:59 Provident Fund amendments including members at OPCo Ltd 3:95 BS Stephenson 'rather queer in manner' living at the British Military Hospital 3:102-109 Alphabetical List and accounts of Provident Fund for surviving Internees of House, OPCo, CNCo Ltd, Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co Ltd and Taikoo Sugar Refining Ltd, 31 Aug 1945 3:193 Index CNCo Provident Fund
Extent: 2 boxes
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright is owned by John Swire & Sons, Ltd, 59 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AJ
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Language: English
Finding aids: Paper handlist available
Format: Archive