| Description | Correspondence and other records regarding the meetings and activities of the Royal English Forestry Society (REFS) primarily accumulated by Leonard Elmhirst through his role as president.
Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Wilfred E Hiley; W Cocks, Ministry of Supply; E Savill, Crown Estate Office; O Sanger, and the Earl of Radnor, Forestry Commission; J Best; H Elwes, Home Grown Timber Marketing Association; T Williams, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; A Rodger; R Proby, Central Landowners Association; C Pendlebury, St Aubyn Estates; L Walker, the Land Agents Society Devon and Cornwall Branch; T Dalgleish, consultant forester; the Duke of Marlborough; F Taylor, Private Forestry Committee; K Huggins, Board of Trade; and members of the REFS including L Wood, R Gardner, G C Wolryche-Whitmore, J Genese, Lord Merthyr, and A Wilkinson.
Subjects include: meetings; the joint committee; the requisition of pitwood by the Ministry of Supply; proposals to visit the Crown Land Woods; appointments; the position of forestry under the Income Tax Bill; the acquisition of private woodlands by the State under the Forestry Commission's programme; the future of the Home Grown Timber Marketing Association and a closer co-ordination with the REFS; the Dedication Woodlands Scheme; the future constitution, of the South Western Division; finance and timber prices; proposals for a marketing research and advisory service; planting grants; and felling licences. Additional material in this folder includes: 'Private Forestry Committee, Requirements of the Forestry Industry'; minutes from 1 meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Landowners Association Devon Branch; notes of a Conference on Private Forestry; and a report from 1 meeting of the REFS South Western Division. |