| Description | Correspondence between J R Currie and: William K Slater; Peter Sutcliffe; Dr S R Sen, Planning Commission, India; and Totnes Divisional Labour Party including letters between Leonard Elmhirst and J Chaplin, Dartington Labour Party. Subjects include: finance and budgets; the Cattle Breeding Centre; a livestock improvement programme in connection with artificial insemination; a proposed conference on Socialism and Agriculture, 1950; and appointments.
This folder also contains letters between: Peter Sutcliffe, P McGillwray, Dorothy Elmhirst, A O (Pom) Elmhirst, J R Currie, and Professor W Riddet regarding the possible appointment of P McGillwray. Also letters between A G Horsnail to the Ministry of Labour and National Service regarding his application to defer to conduct research in agricultural economics at Dartington Hall. Press cutting and reports including: 'Report to the Chairman of the Trustees on the Apparent Lack of Co-operation by the Research Economics Department in Conforming with State Pensions Scheme and General Employment Conditions', 'Visit of E J Chaplin to Grassland Improvement Station, Drayland, Stratford-on-Avon, May, 1950', and 'Socio-Economic Factors Influencing the Mobility of Members of Farm Families in an Upland Area'. |