| Description | General correspondence and other records primarily regarding the business and activities of the Woodlands Department and Forestry Policy.
Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Wilfred E Hiley; G Browne, The Economist; J J MacGregor, and H Champion, Imperial Forestry Institute; Tom Brown; W Maddicott; W Ricketts; R Gardner, Royal Agricultural Society of England; E Kotok, United States Forest Service; Sir P Abercrombie; Lord Merthyr; R Proby, and O Hall-Hall, the Country Landowners' Association; G C Wolryche-Whitmore; A Cairncross, University of Glasgow; O Gillingham, Forestry Commission; Dr H Davis; Victor Bonham-Carter; R Marquis; K Murray, Lincoln College; Bolton School; Robert H Hide, manager Dartington Woodlands; Lord Bolton; Dr G Baptist; N Randall; J Gwatkin, solicitor; the Viscount Newport; L Rowland, The Grosvenor Estate; S Wilson, consultant in wood technology; D Heathcoat Amory, Minister of Agriculture; and G Wilson, Treasury Chambers.
Subjects include: an agreement between the United Kingdom Forestry Committee (UKFC) and the Forestry Commission (FC) that non-state owners of woodlands will be urged by all the constituent bodies represented on the UKFC to dedicate their woods and to urge all other owners of woods to dedicate; the formation of a joint committee with owners and timber trade to negotiate with users on timber prices and with the National Coal Board; training courses for foresters; the formal opening of a new building for the Imperial Forestry Institute; employment and appointments; the activities and appeal of the Country Landowners' Association; Luscombe Wood; Wilfred E Hiley's tour of South Africa; and various excursion, meetings and a Forestry Conference at Dartington Hall.
Additional material in this folder includes: a list of names for the Dartington Hall Field Day; notes including, 'The Stands Walked Through North Wood', 'Machinery Demonstrated at Dartington', 'The Woodlands Leased by Dartington Woodlands Limited', 'Dartington Hall Sample Plots', and criticism of British timber purchasing; an extract from 'The Estate Magazine'; a brief for the second reading of The Forestry Bill; press cuttings; a programme for a Regional Advisory Committee Meeting at Dartington Hall; memoranda including 'Evidence Submitted to the Department Committee on the Marketing of Timber', 'Royal Commission on Commons Evidence Submitted by The Royal Forestry Society of England and Wales', and 'The Effect of Rate of Growth (Ring-Width) on the Density of Softwoods'; and an article from The Timber Trades Journal'. |