Deep Bay Logging Correspondence with Railway Department 2

Deep Bay Logging Correspondence with Railway Department 2

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Title Proper F0 GR0817 BOX 13 FILE 23
Date(s) 1940
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This file contains a textual record.
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Most of this file is correspondence relating to inspections of Deep Bay Logging and Royston Lumber Company by the Railway Department. Both these companies were owned by Japanese businessmen. Eikichi Kagetsu owned Deep Bay logging, and Matsutaro Iwasa, with other Nikkei partners, owned Royston Lumber. Of particular interest are the reports concerning Royston Lumber; ostensibly these reports were prepared by the Department at the request of Arthur Stekl. According to Deputy Minister Stewart, 25 May 1943, Stekl “is arranging to purchase the holdings of the company.”
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The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Deep Bay Logging Correspondence with Railway Department 2
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