| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the establishment and activities of the Home Grown Timber Marketing Association (HGTMA). Material includes: HGTMA draft rules; a 'Memorandum on the objects of and the methods of approach to a system of recording prices paid for Standing Timber'; a press cutting; a list of proposed standard conditions of sale for a conference on the marketing of timber and other trees by auction; a 'Timber Trade Report'; minutes from 1 general meeting, and 5 meeting of the HGTMA council; and printed leaflet regarding 'Poles for Coronation Decoration'.
Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Lord Clinton, HGTMA president; Wilfred E Hiley; J Grant; R Gardner, HGTMA secretary; William K Slater; the editor of The Times; George Turner; H Newsum, Federated Home Grown Timber Merchants' Association; R S Gardiner, Central Landowners Association; S Wilson; W St A Warde-Aldam; and J Genese, HGTMA acting secretary. |