| Description | Records regarding the meetings and activities of the Royal Forestry Society of England and Wales (RFSEW) primarily accumulated by Leonard Elmhirst and Wilfred E Hiley through his role as vice-president.
Material includes: press cuttings; notices, papers, reports, notes, and memoranda from meetings including 'Future Policy for Privately Owned Woodlands', and Private Forestry Census of Woodlands';
minutes from 1 meeting of the United Kingdom Forestry Committee, and 1 meeting between the Forestry Commissioners and the United Kingdom Private Forestry Committee; and correspondence.
Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; J Adderley, secretary, and R Proby, president of the Central Landowners' Association; F Forge, secretary for The Federated Home Grown Timber Associations; F A S Gwatkin, solicitor; and Lord Merthyr, RFSEW president.
Subjects include: felling restrictions; meetings with the Board of Trade; meetings with the Forestry Commissioners; an advisory committee on timber prices; co-operative forestry; forestry dedication; finance and travelling expenses. |