Correspondents include: Gilbert Gledhill, MP for Halifax [West Yorkshire]; Sir John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on mortgage interest rates; Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Charles Newman; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6).Other subjects include: housing shortages; the employment of children on the land; house requisitioning; relief for oil tanker crews; the supply of machine gunners to the Merchant Navy; the Location of Retail Businesses Order; the army bread supply.Also includes: a petition from the National Deposit Friendly Society against National Insurance; a Treasury memorandum on mortgage interest rates.