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Catalogue reference: MAF 193

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MAF 193

Minutes of meetings, memoranda and reports of the Welsh Land Settlement Society.

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MAF 193

Title
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Welsh Land Settlement Society's Records
Date

1936-1962

Description

Minutes of meetings, memoranda and reports of the Welsh Land Settlement Society.

Related material

Ministry of Labour files on land settlement are in

For related correspondence and papers of the Welsh Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries see MAF 70

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Welsh Land Settlement Society, 1936-1962
Physical description

21 files and volumes

Access conditions

Open

Custodial history

The papers were handed over by the Welsh Land Settlement Society to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Welsh Department in 1962.

Administrative / biographical background

Under the Special Areas (Development and Improvement) Act 1934 the Commissioner for the Special Areas was empowered to develop the use of smallholdings to resettle unemployed workers. The Welsh Land Settlement Society was formed in 1936 to settle on the land unemployed industrial workers from the Special Areas of Wales and Monmouthshire. It was financed by advances from the Commissioner for Special Areas. In 1946 the commissioner's responsibilities passed to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, and later the land and other interests of the society were transferred to him. The original society was dissolved in 1949, but a new society with the same name was incorporated in that year. The latter society went into voluntary liquidation in 1962.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10593/

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