| Description | Letter from Bledisloe [Bathurst, Charles (1867-1958) 1st Viscount Bledisloe], Lydney Park, Gloucestershire to Neville Chamberlain.
The file contains the following items:
/27: Letter regarding Bledisloe having been asked by New Zealand ministers in 1934 to submit a name or names for recommendation as candidate[s] for a post; suggesting Josiah Stamp and Balfour of Burleigh to head Government departments; regarding the 'vicious spiral' of rising food prices and rising wages; and regarding him setting up a shop on the Birmingham to Cardiff road causing the reduction of local food prices and his workers to withdraw their request for increased wages. 11 January.
/28: Letter regarding an article about agriculture and land policy and suggests the setting up of a Royal Commission to deal with the matter. 12 July.
/29: Copy of reply from Chamberlain regarding Bledisloe's article on agriculture, with Chamberlain saying that Bledisloe's suggestions were already being done, that he believes agricultural products need to be subsidised, and that he has 'no prejudice against land nationalisation' but does not believe it would be expedient and would 'prefer to leave it to the individual to use his own initiative and enterprise in developing his own land'. 17 July. |