| Description | Records primarily regarding the price and transportation of pit props. Material includes: a report on a tour to the Midlands, 1932; press cuttings; a printed article by J J Macgreggor 'Problems and Methods of Assuring Prices for Home-Grown Timber'; notices, papers, reports, notes, and memoranda from meetings including 'Position Arising form De-Control of Home Grown Timber Prices', 'Financial Returns on Forest Investment'; minutes from 1 meeting of the United Kingdom Forestry Committee (UKFC); a note of a meeting between the Forestry Commissioners and the UKFC, 4 notes of meetings of Negotiating Committee on Pit prop Prices, and a note of a meetings of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee; handwritten notes; and correspondence.
Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; R Proby, and J Adderley, UKFC; J J MacGregor, Imperial Forestry Institute; Robert H Hide, Dartington Woodlands; A Gosling, and Sir H Beresford-Peirse, Forestry Commission; Sir J Hepburn Milne Home; the Duke of Buccleuch; B Urquhart; and S Campbell, secretary for the Home Grown Timber Merchants' Association of Scotland.
Subjects include: meetings with the Forestry Commission to discuss the approach to the National Coal Board on pitwood prices; separate prices for larch and oak; a transport subsidy; and proposals for a price structure for Home grown pit props. |