Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Food: Infestation Control Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: MAF 44
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Food: Infestation Control Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Files dealing with the legislative and administrative functions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Food in connection with the destruction and control of rats and mice, musk rats, rabbits and other pests; and the protection of wild birds. They include:

  • A file series: Horticulture: Diseases, destructive insects and pests, 1893-1915
  • G file series: General 1918-1919
  • LP file series: Land pests 1924-1947
  • TB file series: Small livestock (breeding) 1921-1940

There are no papers for the period 1901 to 1917.

This series also includes papers re-registered from the I file series (MAF 130), the LPN (LP/N) file series (MAF 131), the IR file series (MAF 212), and the II file series: MAF 214
Date: 1893-1960
Related material:

Files on injurious weeds can be found in MAF 235
Separated material:

Further files from A file series, Horticulture: Diseases, destructive insects and pests, 1893-1915 are in MAF 43
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: A, G, LP and TB file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 85 file(s)
Access conditions: Open

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