Catalogue description Forestry Commission: National Home Grown Timber Council: Minute Books
Reference: | F 36 |
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Title: | Forestry Commission: National Home Grown Timber Council: Minute Books |
Description: |
Minutes of the National Home-Grown Timber Council. |
Date: | 1935-1939 |
Related material: |
Records of an earlier Home-Grown Timber Committee, acting in 1916 to 1917 under the Board of Agriculture, are in BT 71 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
National Home Grown Timber Council, 1936-1949 |
Physical description: | 1 volume(s) |
Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1931 the commission appointed an interdepartmental committee 'to investigate and submit proposals for improvement in the utilisation of home-grown timber'. An interim report, presented in 1933, suggested a central organisation for the supply and marketing of home-grown timber. A National Timber Conference was then convened and the eventual outcome was the establishment of the National Home-Grown Timber Council in 1936. It did not engage in commercial transactions but concerned itself with propaganda, economics, statistics, and trade information, and a limited amount of research. The council, constituted a limited company under an independent chairman, was financed mainly by the Forestry Commission. Its activities ceased on the outbreak of war, and it was finally wound up in 1949. |
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