Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1049, sig. 110-10/53 (damaged)

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Niga - 3 - 30, who then turned to the district head B u z e k in Hungarian.Hradisch, who provided them with a car from the district authority and a private car. From the local German side it was noted that it would be useful to give the minister in Prague to understand that for private trips no passenger cars were available, so that not the local places would be embarrassed. On Saturday, the 14.l0.44. At around 9.30 a.m., the minister arrived by car from Zlin in the municipality of Freistadtl near Holleschau, where he was greeted by the mayor, the local chairman of the Association of Agriculture and Forestry and other persons. In the process, bread and salt were served by a boy and a girl according to old farming habits. The Minister received a historical work on Freistadtl from the Mayor as a reminder of this Pesuch, after which some well-known personalities of the town and the district were presented to the Minister. Afterwards, the local music began and greeted the Minister with fanfares from the opera "Libuše". The minister then went to the church, where he was welcomed by the decanter. The further program consisted in an examination of the Freistadt Haupt- und Volksschule, a furniture factory, another factory object, two model goods and a rolling mill. In an inn, a joint meal was given, followed by a meeting with the invited farmers, in which various questions were addressed to the minister, which he answered and explained in a speech. The questions were mainly concerned with the prefixing of the delivery quotas, which the farmers considered to be too high. It was pointed out, among other things, that the area of Freistadtl was hilly and low-yield, so that the prescribing was much higher in relation to the neighbouring Zliner municipalities and could be excluded. In his speech, the Minister referred to the local diversity of the various districts and explained the difference by the fact that it was mainly due to the percentage of 1 1/2 ha of possessions concentrated in some places, so that the larger farmers had to deliver relatively more to cover the total quantity of their area. In addition, the Minister noted that today there is a total delivery obligation and that everyone would have to bring the rest to the delivery without delay after deduction of the seed and the self-supply quotas. However, if the prescribed quantity could not be delivered, it would be assumed on the official side that: