Bennett's of Ballinacurra Descriptive List (Ref. B609)

B609/

supply of seed barley to F & G Smith, Norfolk. A letter of 19 September concerns held- over barley. It refers to when Mr John H. Bennett became director of the State-owned Cereal Station, from which seed was sold to the Irish Maltsters, the Department of Agriculture acting as vendor. The Irish Maltsters Association receives ‘produce of 2 nd pedigree’ seed, which it then sells. B609/1/A/20 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1936 to 31 August 1937. A letter of 1 July 1937 from Mr A Jackson, Malt Dept, to Miss McNeill, discusses the use and origin of the word ‘haggard’. A letter of 11 July concerns cartage and sack hire on barley purchased, and the use of lorries. A letter of 9 June concerns Miss McNeill’s decision not to install an electric fan in her kilns. There are many letters regarding import of British coal in this file, including one dated 6 April which mentions that the Rankinston coal seam appears to have petered out. Present is a licence, dated 8 December 1936 from the Department of Agriculture, permitting JHB to import barley into the Free State through Ballinacurra. A letter of 14 October concerns supply of barley from Carlingford. A letter of 28 November relates to the appearance of weevils in barley. B609/1/A/21 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1937 to 31 August 1938. In a letter of 30 August 1938, C Buttanshaw, Malt Dept, asks Mrs D West [formerly Miss McNeill] for information regarding prices offered by millers and others for barley and oats. He adds ‘if you have nothing which you know is reliable, any reports or rumours are interesting to us at the present moment, though, of course, you would let us know how much reliability is to be attached to these’. A letter of 22 July expresses surprise at the decrease in land under barley in the Cork area, as revealed in the Road Census, after the big demand for seed barley. A letter of 1 June relates to the possible closure of Abercrave colliery. There are several February letters relating to recurrence of smut spores in barley. Present is a barley return for Charleston Maltings, relating to freight on 1000 barrels of barley received from J Bolger & Co, Ferns, Co Wexford (15 October 1937). A letter of 13 October relates to acceptance of 2000 barrels from Dungarvan Co-Op. A letter of 23 September concerns delays in discharging of malt schooners at Ringsend [where AGS take delivery]. B609/1/A/22 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1938 to 31 August 1939. A letter of 25 August 1939 concerns the increasing number of farmers who grow wheat as well as barley and wish to sell both to one buyer. A letter of 27 July from CK Mill, Malt Dept, to Mrs West, begins ‘the Board are rather uneasy about coal supplies having regard to the international situation…’. A letter of 29 March relates to the visit to the brewery by Mr O’Leary, JHB’s analyst, for one week’s instruction. In a letter of 8 March, CK Mill informs Mrs West that he has taken over from C Buttanshaw in the Malt Dept, and proposes a visit to Ballinacurra. There are many letters from November 1938 relating to malt supplies to the brewery at Park Royal, London. In a letter of 7 October, Mrs West is informed that ‘Larkin’s Union [the Workers’ Union of Ireland] have not made the usual Wages Agreement with the Maltsters’ Association, and have