Correspondents H.M. Basner, E.M. Binyon I. Bud Mbelle, J.R. Chueu M. Conradie (Sec.), C.M. Elder (Sec.), P. Epstein (Sec) B. Ernst (Sec). G. Findlay {Vice-Chairman}, J. Findlay (Sec.), J.D. Rheinallt Jones, Rev. H.P. Junod. H.C. Leith (Sec.) A.M. Macintosh (Sec.), M. Malherbe (Sec.), Bishop W. Parker, N.M.M. Pijper (Sec.), L. Robertson (Sec, ), A.L. Saffery, L.H. Warden (See.), I.S. Wehmeyer (Sec.), Q. Whyte, S.P. Woodfield.

Subjects : Activities of the Joint Council (previously the Pretoria Native Welfare Society and the following specific issues :

1931.

Criticism of cuts in teachers' salaries.

1932.

Attack on Joint Councils by A.S. Mbelle.

Possibility of funding an orphanage for Blacks.

1933.

Training of Black nurses.

Question of publicising Joint Council activities.

Education of Slacks.

1934.

Death-bed marriages.

Need for a Prisoners Aid Association,.

1935.

Advisability of administrators speaking African languages.

Evidence to the Native Education Commission.

Marriages amongst Blacks.

1936.

Lack of dental facilities for Blacks.

1937.

Native Law Amendment Bill.

1940.

Health service for Blacks.

Training of Black interpreters.

1943.

Assaults on Blacks by Europeans.

1944.

Cost of foodstuffs in the locations.

1945.

Complaints about Equity Building Society in Lady Selborne location.

Conditions in Lady Selborne.

Employment opportunities for Blacks.

Fatal accident at Hercules Railway Crossing.

1948.

Water supply in Lady Selborne township.

1949.

Banning of meetings.

1950.

Legality of house to house raids by police.

Regulations for exemption certificates.

1953.

Vlakfontein Building Scheme.

1954.

Admission of Non-European children to the zoo.

Conditions of sale of sub-economic houses in Atteridgeville.

Native village regulations.

Conditions in the Asiatic bazaar.

1955.

Economic rentals in the locations.

Inadequate schools and high rentals in Atteridgeville.

Postal service in Vlakfontein.

Proposed removal from Lady Selborne.

1956.

High cost of Transportation.

Overcrowding at Vlakfontein and Atteridgeville.

Passes for African women.

1957.

Prevention of crime and vice in urban locations.

1958.

Protest at building native hostels in urban locations.

Inadequacy of wages paid to unskilled labourers.

1959.

Debarring of primary children with 3rd class pass from a high school education.

Removal of squatters from Eastwood and plan to accommodate them at Vlakfontein.

Housing situation in Pretoria locations.

1960.

Sympathy with those detained under the Emergency Regulations.

Transport costs.

Possible declaration of Lady Selborne a white area.

Wages at Iscor.

1961.

Bantu education and the failure of Standard II pupils.

Proposed multi-racial organisation.

Question of Joint Councils being political.

1962.

Bantu traders in Lady Selborne.

1963.

Dissolution of the Pretoria Joint Council.

Includes report on the Secretary's visit to Moroka. Orlando and Sophiatown and interview with the Regional Director of the National War Memorial Health Foundation, 1951., suggested constitution for the African Social Centre, Grahamstown, 1953, and reply from the Native Affairs Department concerning the centre, 1954.

Correspondents L.F. Addis-Smith (Sec.), H.T. Ash Sec.), H.W.J. Burvill, S. Collier (President), V.F. Couldridge (Sec.), R.P. Hannom, W.H. Harvey (Sec.), F.H. Hollard (Chairman). J. Lang (President), C.H. Malcomess, Rev. J.C. Weis.

Subjects: Formation in 1931 of the Port Elizabeth Joint Council from the Native Welfare Society, activities and decline by 1946 Also the following specific issues.

1924.

Request for information on Joint Councils.

1931.

Old age pensions for Coloureds.

Success of the Negro and Bantu Art Exhibition and possibility of making it national and itinerant.

Black education and the need for a library.

1932.

Unemployment.

Question of a Bantu social centre.

Resolutions on the abolition of poll tax and of imprisoning tax defaulters.

Need for compulsory Black primary education.

1936.

'+ a right school for Blacks.

1937.

Opening of the New Brighton Non-European Library.

Address by Rev. J. Jolobe on his visit to India.

Question of introducing politics into Joint Councils.

1938.

Effect of Native Laws Amendment Act.

Help given to revive the Uitenhage Joint council.

1940.

Regional Conference of Joint Councils at Port Elizabeth.

1942.

Resolutions on poll tax.

1943.

Complaint of Black youth under 15 being imprisoned as tax defaulter.

1944.

Request for compulsory education for Blacks in urban areas.

Correspondents: W.R. Caley (Sec.), E.B. Jones J.D. Rheinallt Jones, A.L. Saffery, J. Wilson (Sec.).

Subjects : Formation of the Joint Council in 1934, attempt to revive it in 1950 and the following specific issues:

1933.

State of joint Councils in the Eastern Province.

1934.

W.R. Caley's appointment as Regional Representative of the S.A. Institute of Race Relations and on the Consultative Committee of Joint Councils.

Improved housing scheme for Blacks.

1940.

Regional Conference of Joint. Councils at Queenstown.

1942.

Red Cross classes for Blacks.

Correspondents : I. Allen (Sec.), E.H. Brookes, G.V.O. Bulkeley (Sec.), G.H. Caiger (Sec.), L.R. Caney (Chairman), M.H. Gallway (Sec.), Miss I. Hurcombe J.D. Rheinallt Jones. C. Lundie, S. Ngcobo M. Palmer (Sec.), A.L. Saffery, D.G. Shepstone, J.E. Stubbings (Sec.), D.R. Thomas, M. Webb C.C. Wilks (Sec, ).

Subjects:

1925.

Increase in licence fees imposed on African eating houses.

1930.

Urban Areas Amendment Bill and the curfew question.

Proposed Society of Friends School.

Migration of Blacks to Durban from outside Natal.

1931.

Survey of Black budgets undertaken by Selby Ngcobo.

Native Economic Commission.

Relationship of the S.A. Institute of Race Relations and Joint Councils.

1932.

Conference of Joint Councils in Pietermaritzburg.

School feeding scheme.

Indian unemployment and the Unemployment Commission.

Treatment of Blacks in court.

Reaction to the Native Service Contract Ace.

Investigation into Durban social conditions.

1934.

Formation of a Coloured European Joint Council.

1935.

Juvenile delinquency.

1937.

Displacement of Indian railway workers by Whites.

Sub-economic housing for Coloureds.

1939.

Visit of J.D. Rheinallt Jones to Durban to raise funds for the S.A. Institute of Race Relations.

1943.

Registration of Blacks resident in Durban.

1945.

Possibility of Durban International Club holding a Non-European art exhibition.

1946.

Opening of a branch of the Institute in Durban.

1947.

Broadcasting Commission.