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Typewritten Memo from Proinsias Bulfin T. D. informing that he shall see the Minister for local Government about the application by Banagher Improvement Association under the Relief Fund Scheme.
Draft letter from R. H. Moore, Secretary of Banagher Improvement Association to D. O'Keefe Esq., Commissioner Tullamore, referring to requests for grant of an additional £300 from Relief Scheme to 'cope with the acute distress here'.
Draft letter from R. H. Moore Banagher to President Cosgrave Leinster House on behalf of Banagher Improvement Committee thanking him for the kind and sympathetic way that he had received a deputation the previous February. Letter goes on to note works completed as a result of the Relief Grant Scheme.
Typewritten letter of William Davin T. D. to R. H. Moore, Secretary Banagher Improvements Committee, regarding an application for a grant from the Relief Schemes Votes for the purpose of carrying out improvements in the town of Banagher.
Letter from R. H. Moore to J. M. Hayek Esq. referring to suggestions that may be helpful in arriving at a decision on the suitabilty of Banagher as a location for a Sugar Factory (with copy).
Draft report regarding housing and maintenance of refugees in Banagher. Report tells of arrangements for making subscriptions 'we estimate that no liability will be thrown upon the central funds in respect of these refugees at any rate not until towards the end of the year. He also notes that there are gifts in kind from the farmers of Banagher neighbourhood.
Notebook containing newspaper clippings of minutes of Banagher Branch of the Irish Farmers Union. Deals with such matters as setting of Fair days, fixing a price for barley. With memo from Offaly County Council acknowledging application for Relief Grant Scheme and encouragement of trade in the towns of Banagher and Birr.
Typewritten letter from Walter Callan, Executive Refugee Committee at Secretary's Office, King's County, regarding arrangements for placement of two families of refugees in Banagher and Ferbane. Letter asks for details from Moore as to how much he Banagher committee had raised in subscriptions 'in order to be able to gauge roughly what charge is likely to fall to central funds'.