Agriculture
Found in 292 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 25 Aug [1913]
Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on hardship inflicted on fishermen by illegal trawling, and the use of assigning ships to help the police against the trawlers. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 15 May 1929
Circular letter from Pembroke Wicks (Conservative and Unionist Central Office) giving an addition to the questionnaire relating to the National Farmers' Union.
(Untitled), 1929
Suggested reply for Conservative candidates to a question on the provision of unemployment insurance for agricultural workers.
(Untitled), 1929
Suggested replies for Conservative candidates to questions on the tied cottage system and the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act for farm workers.
(Untitled), 1929
Suggested replies for Conservative candidates to questions on agricultural policy.
(Untitled), 09 May 1929
Minute from [Donald Fergusson] to [WSC] enclosing and summarising CHAR 2/167/45-47 and listing the objections to a scheme of unemployment insurance for agricultural workers.
(Untitled), 08 May 1929
Letter from Reginald Franklin (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) to Donald Fergusson on the possible extent of unemployment among agricultural workers and the policy of the Labour Party on unemployment insurance in agriculture.
(Untitled), 03 May 1929
Minute from WSC asking for information on the extent of unemployment among agricultural workers, the policy of the Labour Party on unemployment insurance in agriculture and the difficulties of a separate scheme. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/167/49.
(Untitled), 02 May 1929
Minute by WSC asking for information about the feasibility of a separate scheme of unemployment insurance for agricultural workers, with reply by James Grigg.
(Untitled), [1929]
Memorandum on unemployment insurance for agricultural workers. Sent with CHAR 2/167/52.
(Untitled), 29 Oct 1926
Cabinet memorandum by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries [Walter Guinness, later Lord Moyne] on unemployment insurance for agricultural workers. Sent with CHAR 2/167/52.
(Untitled), 20 Nov 1929
Letter from Lord Bledisloe (52 Sloane Street, [London]) to WSC asking him to stress the important role played by Bristol University in agricultural education in his speech at his installation as chancellor. Summary of this letter at CHAR 2/168/29.
(Untitled), 04 Dec 1924
Letter from [WSC] to Edward Wood [later Lord Irwin and Lord Halifax] (Ministry of Agriculture) passing on Information from John Leaning and Sons [chartered surveyors] about Italian factories, one of which 3rd Lord Leicester is trying to introduce into Norfolk, which will have important consequences for British agriculture. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), Dec 1926
"Journal of the Farmers' Club": "Modern Swine Husbandry" by Lord Bledisloe, and reports of the annual meeting and annual dinner.
(Untitled), 14 Jun 1934
Letter from J W Whittome (Eastmoor House, Doddington, March, Cambridgeshire) to Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, asserting that the Government's agricultural and trade policies have impoverished farmers and unfairly enriched tradesmen. Copy sent with CHAR 2/205/7.
(Untitled), [Jun] [1934]
Letter from Arthur Hazlerigg [Noseley Hall, Leicester] to John Shakespear (17 Wellington Street, Leicester) on arrangements for a meeting in Leicester on the fat stock situation. Copy sent with CHAR 2/205/7.
(Untitled), Jun 1934
Agrictultural Party bulletin. Sent with CHAR 2/205/7.
(Untitled), 14 Jun 1935
(Untitled), 30 May 1935
(Untitled), 09 Oct 1935
Letter from [?] S C Thomas (Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch [London]) to WSC, regretting that they won't have time to meet, and describing his interview with the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Malcolm MacDonald] about the sugar industry in Barbados, and the plan to introduce worldwide sugar quotas.
(Untitled), [1907]
Letter from [WSC] to the editor of the Times on Henry Rider Haggard's assertion that rural depopulaton and urban congestion can only be remedied by a multiplication of small holdings and a system of Protection. Draft in the hand of ?.
(Untitled), 20 Feb 1908
Letter from Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron, 1st viscount)] (Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby, [Warwickshire]) to WSC on: the commission on afforestation; the chance of WSC getting into the Cabinet as a result of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's illness; the Licensing Bill; the Coal Mines (Eight Hours) Bill; land valuation; the need for parliamentary consideration of the Poor Law and for old age pensions to form part of a general scheme for dealing with poverty.
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1941 - 01 Feb 1941
Letter from Colonel Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy (Maxton, St Boswells [Roxburghshire, Scotland]) to [John] Colville, Prime Minister's Private Secretary, (10 Downing Street) on agricultural labour shortages, blaming problems on the Ministry of Labour. Signed typescript followed by carbon of acknowledgement.
(Untitled), 01 Feb 1941 - 27 Feb 1941
Correspondence between [Prime Minister's Private Secretaries, John] Colville and "J H P" [John Peck] and H Meadows (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) on allegations from [Colonel] Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy about agricultural labour shortages. Carbon copies and signed typescript.
(Untitled), 28 Feb 1941
Letter from "J R C" [John Colville, Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to Colonel Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy responding to allegations about agricultural labour shortages. Carbon copy.