Agricultural Material: Vegetable Fibres, Tung Oil, and Wheat, 1947-1948

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(fols. 1-8) letter from R.H. Kirby, Secretary to the Imperial Institute Consultative Committee on Vegetable Fibres, to Evans about jute substitutes in Mauritius, South Africa, British Honduras (Belize) and British Guiana (Guyana); and a related memorandum by Kirby, 15 May 1947
(fols. 9-27) Tung Oil (or Chinese Wood Oil): Correspondence with the Director of Agriculture, Colonial Office, and related memoranda, about experiments in cultivating Aleuritis Fordii and Montana in British Honduras (Belize), and the prospects of producing the oil in Nyasaland (Malawi) on a commercial basis. (copies), n.d.
(fol. 28) letter from the Director of Instituto Agronomico per l'Africa Italiana to Greenidge about wheat growing in tropical climates, with special reference to the British West Indies, 3 Apr 1948
(fol. 29) notes by a member of the Commission on weights of unspecified crop, with additional notes about imports, [c. 1948].

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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 285/15, folder 5

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