This file contains mainly correspondence on financial assistance to hospitals and on provincial staffing/civil servants, including the following: hospital grants (Creston, St. Joseph’s, Cowichan Lake, Royal Jubilee, St. Joseph’s Oriental), personal enquiries (staffing, pensions/retirement), Canada Saving Bonds, Dogwood flower as provincial emblem, Older Boys Parliament, Deputy Registrars, municipal Jubilee celebrations, Elections Act amendments, war memorial, Hours of Work Act (appeal, signed by Sidney Smith and Justice Bird), blood bank, nursing age, finances of various organizations, Provincial Board of Industrial Relations, Boy Scouts, Kamloops recreation centre, United Church of Canada conference resolutions, BC Rifle Association, Vancouver Court House office hours, venereal disease control, appointment returned soldiers, and provincial employees’ salary & cost-of-living bonus. Also includes correspondence on the following: advertisements, peace treaties (federal jurisdiction), newsletter, departmental issues (reimbursements, staff appointments, foreign visits, premier’s travel, Governor General’s reception), E & N Railway, list of Acting Ministers, International Geological Congress, gifts for Princess Elizabeth’s wedding, personal enquiries, Alaska Highway, TB patients, citizenship ceremonies & Canadian Citizenship Week, provincial coat-of-arms, 1945 Session statutes, Canadian Red Ensign, Government Caucus Card, and a list of Standing Committees.