Description of series:
Typescript copies of submissions and of abstracts and summaries of evidence taken by the Royal Commission. (For details see attached list).
 
History Prior/Subsequent to Transfer:
Prior to transfer: The Commissioners - G. W. Paton (Chairman), R. G. Osborne, C. B. Bednall R. C. Wilson, N. T. Young and M. C. Foxton (K. Collings - Secretary) - were appointed on the 11th February, 1953, and held their first meeting in Melbourne on the 23rd of the same month. The first of the 34 public sittings, which were held in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Hobart, for the purpose of taking evidence, began in Melbourne on 11th March, 1953. The report was authorised to be printed on the 13th November, and was signed on the 30th Feb, 1954. The records of the commission were then delivered into the custody of PM's Department where they remained until transferred to Archives Division on the 1st Nov, 1955.
Subsequent to transfer : Folders consecutively numbered after transfer from PM's for identification purposes.
 
Administrative information
 
The following data was keyed from the paper documentation:
Form number:              CA 17
Creating department:      , Royal Commission on T/V, 1953, ,
Date of transfer:         01/11/1955
Archives file number:     RWC2/1/60