| Description | Records primarily regarding negotiations with the National Coal Board on a central agreement for the supply of home grown pit props. Material includes: handwritten notes; notices, papers, reports, notes, and memoranda from meetings including 'Suitability for Dedication'; notes of 2 meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Negotiations Committee on Pit prop Prices; minutes of 1 meeting between the forestry Commissioners and the United Kingdom Forestry Commission, (UKFC); and correspondence.
Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; J Adderley, and R Proby, UKFC; H Gosling, W Kinnaird, Sir H Beresford-Peirse, J Butcher, and O Sangar, Forestry Commission; T Dalgleish, Co-operative Forestry Society; E Hampson, and A Street, National Coal Board; W Vane MP; T Niven; S Campbell, Home Grown Timber Merchants' Association of Scotland; M Lorimer, the Scottish Joint Forestry Committee; R Gardner, secretary for the Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland; Sir J Hepburn Milne Home; J R Currie; Robert H Hide, Dartington Woodlands; the Earl of Cawdor; and J Carson. |