Box 606767572
Container
Contains 88 Results:
Colonial Development: Economic Commodities - correspondence, memoranda, and printed papers, 1935-1958
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52
Contains:
folder 1: 'Bananas', 1935-1941
folder 2: 'Crops, general' (including Oil Palm), 1941-1957
folder 3: 'Citrus', 1940-1958
folder 4: 'Cocoa', 1940-1958
folder 5: 'Coffee', 1955
folder 6: 'Groundnuts' (East African Scheme), 1947-1951
folder 7: 'Sugar', 1941-1958.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1935-1958
National Expenditure Papers Nos 11 and 18, issued by the Ministry of Food, 17 and 24 Feb 1940
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 1-3
National Expenditure Papers Nos 11 and 18, issued by the Ministry of Food, concerning (1) the Empire Cocoa Control Scheme, and (2) cocoa production in the Americas.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
17 and 24 Feb 1940
Typed extracts from Hansard and Crown Colonist about the West Africa Cocoa Control Board (Chairman, G.H. Hall) and Swollen Shoot Disease, 11 Dec 1940-Aug 1941
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 18-20
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
11 Dec 1940-Aug 1941
Cuttings from the Manchester Guardian and News Chronicle about criticisms of the W. African cocoa marketing scheme, 20 Jan-26 Feb 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 55-56
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
20 Jan-26 Feb 1945
Two copies of letter from the FCB to Stanley, expressing support for the proposals in the White Paper (Cmd. 6554), 28 Feb 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 57-58
Cutting from The Recorder with article by Francis Lewcock, Industrial Editor, criticising the proposals, 3 Mar 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fol. 59
Two letters from Rita Hinden to the Manchester Guardian about the West African Cocoa Control Scheme and opposition to it by the trading interests, 5-23 Mar 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 60-69
Also includes letters from H. Heymann, Ministry of Information, and C.E. Smith, to Rita Hinden about her views expressed in the correspondence.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
5-23 Mar 1945
Comments on 'Report on Cocoa Control in West Africa and Reply by C.A.L.', 16 Mar 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 70-73
Comments on 'Report on Cocoa Control in West Africa and Reply by C.A.L.', initialled E.C. and marked as being the property of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
16 Mar 1945
'The New Cocoa Scheme', and an untitled article on the future of the cocoa trade: two unsigned typescripts, possibly by Rita Hinden, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 74-79
Extract from Hansard (two copies) about cocoa marketing, 29 Mar 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 80-81
Letter from Greenidge to Rita Hinden covering an article by Sir William Beveridge (cutting from the Star) and a copy of his own pamphlet, 'The Story of Cocoa' (pp. 16), 12 Apr 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 82-83 and item 1
Cuttings about the cocoa trade from The Times, Manchester Guardian, and Financial Times, 17 Apr-10 Aug 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 84-87
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
17 Apr-10 Aug 1945
Letter from Stanley to Creech Jones about consumer representation in the West African Cocoa Marketing Scheme, 3 May 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fol. 88
Letter from Gershon Ashie-Nikoi, Executive Secretary, Farmers' Committee of the Gold Coast (Ghana), 7-24 Sep 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 89-91
Letter from Gershon Ashie-Nikoi, Executive Secretary, Farmers' Committee of the Gold Coast (Ghana), and two press releases by the Delegation of Gold Coast and Nigerian Farmers, about opposition to the White Paper proposals.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
7-24 Sep 1945
Memorandum of protest against government control of cocoa in West Africa, submitted by the Delegation to G.H. Hall, S/S Col. (pp. 12, two copies), 27 Sep 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, items 2a-3
Circular letter from Ashie-Nikoi, Leader of the Delegation, to Members of Parliament, 21 Nov 1945
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, item 4
Manuscript notes, 'How the scheme has worked' and 'The proposal itself examined', n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 92-93
West African Students' Union (WASU) Memorandum on the Cocoa Control Scheme, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fol. 94
Replies by Creech Jones to Questions on cocoa co-operative societies and the West African Produce Control Board, 27 Feb-16 Apr 1946
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 95-97
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
27 Feb-16 Apr 1946
Memorandum by the Anti-Slavery Society on the Cocoa Industry in British West Africa, 1949 Jan
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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 365/52, folder 4, fols. 98-99