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Annual Report 1918

Annual report, account and rental for year ending June 1918. Describes a buoyant timber industry for the year with profit made from timber sales on the thinning of woods planted 45 years previously. Describes the country as 'almost entirely free of agitation and disturbance' but notes that 'the attitude of the people as regards the War, where not openly hostile and pro-German is quite apathetic, and this attitude appears to be deliberately encouraged, with scarcely an exception by members of the Nationalist Party and by the Roman Catholic priesthood.'

Annual Report 1919

Report for year ending June 1919 outlining a remittance of £10,250 to Lord Digby, the increased amount being ascribed to revenue derived from the woods, particularly mature Scotch pine from Clonad Wood to a firm of match-makers. Remarks that although Ireland ‘remains in a disturbed an unsatisfactory condition this immediate neighbourhood has been very free from agitation and outrage and from a continuance of high prices for all agricultural produce and abundant crops, the Irish farmer is enjoying an era of unprecedented prosperity.’

Correspondence Relief Scheme and sugar beet factory

File of correspondence being mainly copy outgoing correspondence of R. H. Moore.
Includes typewritten letter of William Davin T. D. to R. H. Moore, Secretary Banagher Improvements Association in relation to the application for a grant from the Relief Schemes Votes and the suitability of Banagher for a Beet Sugar Factory.

De Valera - meeting on national and economic secruity

Printed notice of an address by An Taoiseach Mr Eamon De Valera to be held on Tuesday 16th February 1943 in County Buildings Tullamore on the importance of national and economic security of the nation and its homegrown food suppliers.

Department of Industry and Commerce - Stop on waste paper discarding

Typewritten memoranda from Department of Industry and Commerce to the Secretary of the Parish Council informing that the minister has made an order 'under which it is an offence to destroy or discard any waste paper without reasonable cause' and urging the organisation of a collection of waste paper within each parish.

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