Letter from William B Hardy to D Noel Paton Has had a letter from Rhondda and notes that it was 'due to a subordinate' that [the committee] had not been consulted. Informs Paton that the Chief Secretary Wintour has asked to have a Food Committee representative on a new committee to help draw up a rationing scheme -- that it will have to be Paton or Hopkins -- thinks that Hopkins could not 'hold his own' with a bad chairman but Paton can -- so Paton 'as a matter of national duty, will have to get a month's leave and come to town'. 14 November 1917