XPQ/100/76/39
COPY LETTER: Walter D. Hobson [General Manager, Penrhyn Quarries] at Port Penrhyn, Bangor to R.T. Jones, General Secretary North Wales Quarrymen’s Union at Caernarfon, thanking him for sending copy of Mr. Appleton’s letter. States that in November 1917 the quarryowner’s gave evidence to Sir Tudor Walter’s Committee about the availability of slate for new housing after the war. The Committee were to told there would be no shortage of slate, but, he says, so many men taken from us [for forces] that the stocks have reduced. Comments on unsuitability of artificial tiles for housing. Brick shortage and war time [monopoly] profits of cement industry.
Cyngor Gwynedd