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Draft of a proposed report by the Standing Committee, on Mr Frederick Walker's pooling scheme designed to protect those companies trading in genuine Porthmadog slate.

Letters relating to the adoption of an apprenticeship system for wharf loaders and quarrymen.

Rules of the North Wales Quarry Association, [c.1931]; correspondence relating to wages agreements, 1933-1934; and a letter, 1930 in Welsh from the Transport and General Workers' Union regarding work conditions.

Extract from the Herald Gymraeg, of statistics relating to the number of houses built in Great Britain with grant aid, 1924-1930 and the figures for British and foreign slates imported during the same period.

Statistics of shipments and dues, correspondence, etc., with notes in support of Porthmadog as opposed to Deganwy as the port of shipment of Ffestiniog slate, and a paper read by Jonathan Davies at a public meeting at Portmadoc, 1886, supporting the development of a proposed Cambrian Railway branch line to the slate wharves. Papers include postal arrangements for different North Wales towns, population, number of deliveries, times of collections and deliveries from stations.

Article based on the personal experience of the writer when visiting the Oakeley quarries, Ffestiniog. Reprinted from the North Wales Observer and Express, 10 July 1891.

Personal letters written in Welsh from Jonathan Davies's friend Henry Jones (1841-1936), Lightning Creek, Cariboo, British Columbia, formally a native of Llangybi, Caernarfonshire. Most relate to life in British Columbia, and his religious readings. Includes a biography of Henry Jones, an ex-member of the British Columbia legislature, a pioneer in the early gold-mining days in Cariboo, in the form of a cutting from 'Vancouver Sunday Province', 11 March 1928, and an announcement of his death in the Daily Post, 23 March 1936.

Correspondence, notices of meetings, and reports, most relating to the maintenance of roads under the control of the Tremadoc Estate.

Bill of costs in relation to a boat sent to Manod lake, Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Letters, 1903, 1955; cuttings, 1936, 1955; balance sheets, 1940-1957; membership cards and rules, 1904, 1948-1957, etc.; of the Glaslyn Angling Association. Includes a report on the hatchery at Pen y Gwryd, by A Lockwood, 1946, and map and details of proposed waters to lease for 1940. These papers were passed on to and added to by Ithel Davies.

Papers connected to his position as magistrate at the Caernarfon Quarter Sessions.

Report of the Royal Commission on the operation of the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act, 1881, with papers relating thereto, 1889-90, including copies of letters from Jonathan Davies to the secretary of the commission, and printed forms of petition issued by Cymdeithas Ddirwestol Meirion and Cymanfa Ddirwestol Gwynedd, the latter under the name of D. R. Daniel, Fourcrosses.

Letters, mostly to Jonathan Davies, relating to the Welsh Ministers Fund appeal organised in Wales by the Methodists General Assembly, in support of the Welsh undenominational church at Cape Town with Jonathan Davies as treasurer and H. T. Jacob, Peniel, as secretary. Includes balance sheets, receipts and receipt book, 1904-1909, accounts, circulars and copy of Rhaglen Cymanfa Ganu Gymreig Cape Town a'r Cylchoedd, 1904.

National Registration card of Jonathan Davies, and card authorising him to call upon men eligible for enlistment.

Papers of Ithel Davies, son of Jonathan Davies, including some correspondence, 1934, and items relating to social engagements, 1937, 1953, 1955.

Order of ceremony for the opening of Porthmadog Library, and a copy of the rules.

Probate records of Pierce Davies, 1883, Jane Davies, 1898, Catherine Griffith and Edward Griffith, 1920-1924.