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

B609/

B609/1/E

Other Letters Received, 1937-98

This section contains all correspondence filed as such but not falling into any of the sections above. It mainly consists of further files of general or ‘mixed’ correspondence. Complete series of Department of Agriculture correspondence [B609/6/D, B609/7/A-B] and Management Committee correspondence [B609/4/B] have been placed elsewhere. The files in the present sub-section include letters to and from growers, suppliers, stakeholders, DoA, government agencies, scientific bodies, and the public (B609/1/E/1-18). The letters are mainly incoming. Also placed in this section are the few remaining files of correspondence with a single supplier, or on a single subject (e.g., Electricity Supply Board: B609/1/E/19-20; Departments of Supplies and Posts and Telegraphs: B609/1/E/21). Items in files B609/1/E/1-3, which were originally in a disordered state, are in reverse chronological order, although items from the same source in the same year have been grouped together. B609/1/E/1 Other General Letters, incoming, 1938-48 (1909-32). This file is mainly comprised of general correspondence from 1938 to 1948. Also present is a small file of DoA correspondence from 1909 to 1932. Among 1947 letters are notes and figures regarding a marigold experiment. A return of Wheat (Seed) Assemblers’ Permit Holders is also present. There are many letters from December 1944 to December 1945 from the Cork South Health District regarding water supply. A letter of 18 December 1938 from the Secretary, South Cork Board of Health, to John H Bennett, refers to the ‘urgency of the water problem at Ballinacurra’. A form dated 20 November 1941 records JHB’s agreement to take 15 acres of land in conacre from the Irish Land Commission at Crocane, Whitehall, Cloyne, Co Cork, the land to be used for growing corn. A circular dated 31 July 1940 regarding war risk and the impracticability of insuring cargoes during wartime proposes the creation of a Mutual Protection Association to provide a common fund allowing some measure of compensation. There are many letters throughout from Guy & Co, Printers and Stationers, Cork. The small DoA file includes weekly accounts of labour (1909) and departmental travelling expenses (1929). There is a gap from 1910 to 1924. B609/1/E/2 Other General Letters, incoming, 1938-53. This file is similar to the above, with much overlap, although both originally formed distinct files. This file contains many letters of a more personal tone. Present are a number of letters from late September 1945 from H Costello-Hunt, Officer-commanding, 8 th Cyclists’ Squadron, Cobh, recommending men for employment with JHB. There are many letters from 1950 to 1953 from farmers ordering seed oats of the Victory and Glasnevin Triumph varieties [see also B609/9/E/3]. These have been grouped together at