Related series unregistered

Name Index Volumes, 1917-1951 (ex CP 602/1, AS12/8)

Function and purpose

 The series covers a range of subjects dealt with by the Prime Minister’s Department from 1904 to 1920, including amendments to Acts; public utilities such as railways; banking and financial matters.

Initially, registry practice was haphazard but became formalized with the passing of time. The registers do not usually show top-numbering. The index cards record top-numbering but may not be complete.  Approximately 10% of the series is extant.

Many of the missing files will be found top-numbered into:

·        Series A457 ‘Correspondence files, multiple number series, first system’ (accumulated between 1915-1923);

·        A458 ‘Correspondence files, multiple number series, second system’ (accumulated between 1923-1934)

·        and A461 ‘Correspondence files, multiple number series, third system’ (accumulated between 1934-1950)

A number of files were converted after 1917 to the first Secret and Confidential series of the Prime Minister's Department - (ex accession number CP 447/1) and thereafter to the second Secret and Confidential series. A very few matters were raised directly from series A2 to the second Secret and Confidential series (ex CP 447/2).

The index cards to the files, series A77, were subject to reorganisation in the last years of the series; for the year 1921 refer to the first multiple number series (A457).

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Finding aids

Consignment lists exist for this series.  All items in custody, 3337 as at 8 January 2003, were entered into the database in 1997. 

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