Subject: Address to Jones.

Subject: Farm labour.

Correspondents: C.H. Malcolmess, D.B. Molteno, M. Webb, W.T. Welsh.

Subjects:

Election.

Resolutions at the 10th annual session of Location Advisory Boards Congress.

Land in Piet Retief.

Correspondents: Clergy of the Berlin Mission.

Subjects:

1928 Better homes, better fields, better hearts. By Catholic African Organisation, 1928.

1929 Arrangements for the World Service Exhibition to be held in Johannesburg.

Includes constitution of the Transvaal Missionary Association and resolutions adopted by the S.A. Missionary Conferences, Bloemfontein, 1929.

Correspondents: International Committee on Christian Literature for Africans. B.G. Paver.

Subject: Articles for the Bantu press.

Correspondents: African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC), E.H. Brookes, B. Sundkler.

Subjects:

Attendance of delegates from AMEC at a General Conference in America.

Restriction on church services in private allotments in native locations.

Plight of foreign missionaries cut off from overseas funds. Research on black churches.

This "RJ" collection, spans the years 1929 to 1954 although there are some items as early as 1921 and as late as 1968. There is a large section on the foundation and work of the Institute covering its policy, publications, membership, administration, activities and regions. The other subject divisions are urban affairs, land, taxation, legislation, franchise, justice, economics, labour, education, Coloured and Indian affairs, social services, World War II, organisations with which the Institute was associated, Protectorates, Africa, church and missionary and J.D. Rheinallt Jones in his personal and senatorial capacity. The collection reflects the Institute's efforts to upgrade the economic, social and political status of Blacks, Coloureds and Indians in South Africa, with particular reference to housing, health, education and franchise, and to improving relations between the different races.

This inventory is dedicated to the late Jeanette Curtis, the SAIRR's archivist, who was responsible for gathering together this collection and ensuring its preservation for researchers.