This series consists of two sets, each of thirty-four brown visidex folders. The set held by Australian Archives has white spine labels bearing the title : "Spare Set - Seventh Menzies Ministry - Cabinet Submissions (First Series)" together with the volume number and range of submission numbers.
Each folder contains submissions for consideration by Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee, arranged in numerical order with the related decision, and in some cases, covering minutes for submissions withdrawn or dealt with outside Cabinet.
This series is an artificial series, having been copied in 1981 by the Cabinet Office from the original papers kept in CRS A4940, Cabinet files, 'C' single number series, 1958-1967. To aid retrievability and accessibility, the series contents date range in this instance indicates the dates of the original papers that were copied from CRS A4940 and not the actual age of the copies themselves (1981).
From 1958-1967 Cabinet Office discontinued its practice of maintaining folders of submissions and associated documents. Instead, all papers pertaining to a submission and its consideration by Cabinet or a Committee of Cabinet were placed on a file in the contemporary file series (CRS A4940). In 1981 it was decided that the gap in submission and decision sets caused by this temporary practice should be filled, and so, relevant papers were copied to form this series and its successor, CRS A5819.
Although there are several registers of submissions there is no subject index. A subject index was created for the "C" files (A4940) but cannot be used as a point of entry to the submissions or decisions because it refers only to the appropriate "C" file number, not to the submission or decision number. It is possible to identify relevant submissions through the function they represent, by consulting CRS A4937, a register of submissions arranged by the Minister sponsoring, which also gives the relevant decision number.
All submissions in this series have been entered separately onto the item level database, ANGAM II, and each entry provides a cross reference to the associated decision(s) as at January 1993.
Quantity in agency custody
Set 1: 34 volumes held by CA 1472, Cabinet Office