JH/AGR/9 - [General correspondence on agriculture]

JH/AGR/9

File

[General correspondence on agriculture]

1955-1971
1988

164 items Mixed

Contains mainly 1956 and 1957 correspondence with JH as a member of the House of Commons. Some letters deal with agricultural issues affecting Norfolk and quite a few are addressed to MAFF officials. Issues include: housing subsidies for agricultural workers; provincial and local organisation of the Ministry of Agriculture; the efficiency of the National Agricultural Advisory Service; bird scarers; horticultural produce prices; a case of eviction; the spread of myxamatosis; rural industries and thatching; farm and growers' co-operatives; Safety in Agriculture Bill; wood-pigeons as vermin; charges for contracted work; slaughterhouse standards; slaughterhouse bill; meat canning by the Fatstock Marketing Corporation; the establishment of a milk bar in the House of Commons; the Forestry Commission's sale of land; farm electrification; the rejection of bulls by licensing officers; the Federation of Malaya Independence Bill; agricultural workers in East Anglia; rating of farm buildings; drainage; meeting arrangements, etc.