Correspondents Rev. R. Cuenod (Sec.), J. de Mestral (Sec.), Rev. A.A. Jaques, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, T. Kühne (Sec.), Rev. P.T. Leresche, H.S. Phillips (Chairman).

Subjects: Formation of the Council in 1931, activities and the following specific issues:

1931 Purpose of Joint Councils.

1932 Campaign against tuberculosis.

1932 Native Service Contract Bill.

1932 Resolution against the Draft Proclamation amending the Natal Code of Native Law.

1933 Influx of Blacks into urban areas and need for employ­ment bureaux.

1933 Black unemployment and distress.

1935 Question of selling plots on Elim Farm, owned by the Swiss Mission, to Blacks and forming a Black township.

1936 Agricultural show organised by the Joint Council Resolution on the control and financing of Black education.

1943 Trading rights in the location.

1955 Africans deserting Joint Councils for African National Congress.

Correspondents E.A. Borland (Sec.), A.A. Heaton (Sec. }, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, Rev. T.J. Kelly (Sec.), A.A. Kidwell, H. Miller (Town Cleric), F.A. Roos (Sec.), A.L. Saffery, R.H.W. Shepherd, E. Strachan (Sec.), F.J. van Wyk.

Subjects: Details of meetings, attempts to revive the Council from 1939-191 and the following specific issues:

1931.

Position of Native Advisory Boards.

1932.

Need to clean up Germiston location.

1933.

Grievances of location residents re lodgers tax.

1934.

Black education and its improvement.

1944.

Relationship of Location Advisory Boards and Joint Councils.

1945.

Transport costs to proposed location site.

1946.

Representation of the Joint Council in municipal government.

1949.

Need for a National Joint Council conference.

1950.

Application of curfew regulations to bearers of exemption passes.

Elimination of the term "Kaffir" from school textbooks.

1954.

Activities of the Germiston Study Circle.

Correspondents: Dr. D. Hynd, Dr. S.W. Hynd (Chairman), J.D. Rheinallt Jones, J.J. Nqutu (Sec.), S. Pearson (Sec.).

Subject: Attempts to encourage Joint Council work in Swazi­land and reports of activities.

Correspondents : E. Britten, D. Hobart Houghton (Sec.), J.D. Rheinallt Jones, E.D. Mountain, A.A. Moyake, J.E.H. Mylne (Sec.), A.L. Saffery, E.M. Spurling (Sec.), Rev. W.Y. St. George Stead.

Subjects : Formation of the Joint Council after a meeting on 10 March 1931 of the Grahamstown Native Welfare Society and an address to it by Dr. Jesse Jones. Also the following specific issues.

1926.

Omission of Blacks from the Pensions Act.

Franchise for Blacks.

1931.

Native Economic Commission.

Poll tax exemption.

Native Service Contract Bill.

1932.

Plea for J.D. Rheinallt Jones to address Blacks, to counter agitators.

Need to replace clinic nurse.

1935.

Regional conference in East London.

Need for a Black and Coloured census.

1937.

Attempt to establish a secondary school for Blacks.

Need for a new tax system for Blacks.

1941.

Cost of living for lower income groups.

1946.

Careers for Blacks.

1948.

Native school feeding. scheme.

1949.

Adult education centre.

1955.

Flan for a community centre and sports field.

Correspondents : E. Calder (Chairman), O. Clark (Sec.), M.I. Fair (Sec.), M.S. Geen (Sec.), B. Huss J.D. Rheinallt Jones, J. Lewin, A.L. Saffery, Q. Whyte.

Subjects: Activities of the Joint Council and the following.

1931.

Request for sports and medical facilities in the location.

Complaints from standholders re imprisonment for rent arrears.

Vocational training and employment of Blacks.

Unemployment, poll tax and cost of living.

1932.

Reduction in salaries of African teachers.

Complaint about lack of Liaison between the Minister of Native Affairs and Blacks re legislation.

1933.

Enquiry into police treatment of Blacks at Frederik stad.

1934.

Poll tax leaflet.

Rehabilitation of Blacks at Machaviestad.

Damages claimed by Location Superintendent for allegations that location traders had to pay levies in kind.

Death-bed marriages of Blacks.

Health of Blacks in rural areas.

Fear that reduction in poll tax will lessen amount spent on Slack education and health.

1935.

Native marriages.

Conviction of Blacks for perjury in pass exemption cases, for omitting previous minor offences.

Appointment of public defenders or 'prisoners friends'.

1936.

Resolution on education for Slacks.

1937.

Attitude of Potchefstroom University College members to the Joint Council.

1938.

Hospitalisation for chronically ill Blacks.

Need for compulsory registration of births.

1940.

Appointment of a Black agricultural demonstrator at Machaviestad.

1941.

Evidence to the Inter-Departmental Committee of Enquiry into the economic, health and social conditions of Blacks in urban areas.

1942.

Need to train and arm Blacks.

Housing for Coloureds and Blacks.

1943.

Labour conditions in the smaller urban areas.

1945.

Addresses by J. D. Rheinallt Jones and O.D. Wollheim on Advisory Boards.

1946.

Ownership of illegitimate Black children.

1954.

Information that the Joint Council expired in 1948.

Correspondents : E. Brookes. J.D. Rheinallt Jones, D.J. Kotze. E. McGregor (Chairman). S. Rametsi (Sec.), S.L. Sidzumo, Rev. K.E.M. Spooner. Q. Whyte.

Subjects : Attempts to form the Council from 193 until 1941 when it was established, its activities and demise by 1951.

Also the following specific issues :

1933 Question of freehold for housing in a new location.

1937 Establishment of a clinic at Phokeng.

1941 Need for a community hall co stop the young men moving to towns.

1946 Aims of the Rustenburg Civic Society.

1955 Activities of the Study Group.

Correspondents: F. J. Ashton (Sec.), H. B, Brabant -Smith (Sec.), J.C. Collins (Chairman), H.L. Gwyer (Bishop of George), J.D. Rheinallt Jones, S. Newby (Chairman), D.D. Ngubeni.

Subjects : Formation of the Joint Council in 1941, reports of activities and changes of officials and the following specific issues.

1942 Possibility of including Coloureds in the Joint Council.

1944 Opening of a school for Blacks in Urbanville Location due to the efforts of the Joint Council.

1949 Position of the Junior Cape Corps Battalion at Mossel Bay.

1951 Resolution against the 'tot' system.