| Description | Records regarding the meetings and activities of the Royal English Forestry Society (REFS) including: Post-War Forest Policy; a Joint Forestry Committee; proposed plans for the State Control and Private Woodlands; Agricultural Wages; a Forest Workers Training Scheme; the premises of the REFS; and an excursion to Moretonhampstead Woods. Material includes: minutes from 2 meetings of the REFS Publications Committee, 3 meetings of the REFS Executive Committee, 3 meetings of the Council of the REFS, 1 meeting of the Private Forestry Committee, and 2 meetings of the Standing Committee of the Central Landowners' Association; notices, papers, reports, notes, and memoranda from meetings; press cuttings; and correspondence.
Correspondents include: Leonard Elmhirst; Wilfred E Hiley; Sir Roy Robinson, Forestry Commission; REFS members including, R Gardner, G Worlryche-Whitmore, J Genese, L Wood, and A Wilkinson; R Proby, chairman, and M Hill, secretary for the Central Landowners Association; M Culham, Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat; W Vane, MP; and F A S Gwatkin, solicitor and Dartington Hall Trustee. |