VAN DER MERWE, Daniël Pieter [Dan] Inventory of documents

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Inventory of the private collection of

DP van der Merwe

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1 CORRESPONDENCE General Correspondence on various personal and

political matters

1942-1953 2 CORRESPONDENCE General Correspondence on various personal and

political matters; constitution of the Livestock Auctioneers Federation of SA

1954-1960

3 CORRESPONDENCE General Personal correspondence re DP van der Merwe's pension as Senator; act to provide payment of pensions and other benefits to members of Parliament and their widows; report of Colour Question Commission, National Party; Natives Representative Council nominations

1937-1963

4 SPEECHES General Speeches and notes for speeches on

education and cultural matters

1936-1950 5 SUBJECT FILES Municipal issues Correspondence regarding Rosendal

municipality; local government OFS policy and successes; OFS Municipal Society motor licenses

1932-1960

6 SUBJECT FILES National Party Correspondence of a political nature on various subjects, mostly National Party matters

1935-1949

7 SUBJECT FILES National Party Correspondence of a political nature on various subjects, mostly National Party matters; coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth

1950-1953

8 SUBJECT FILES National Party Correspondence of a political nature on various subjects, mostly National Party organisational matters

1954-1960

9 SUBJECT FILES National Party Correspondence of a political nature on various subjects; report of Annual Congress of Herenigde National Party or Volksparty 1948; HNP information sheets; SKIETGOED newsletter of National Party covering NP policy; Financial statements regarding National Party OFS 1956; Memorandum addressed to Min. B

Schoeman as Minister of Labour regarding training of young men, Bethlehem

8/11/1952

1933-1956

10 SUBJECT FILES Provincial issues

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as roads, hospitals, telegraph lines, etc.

1937-1949

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as roads, railways, education, agriculture, etc.

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12 SUBJECT FILES Provincial

issues

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as vermin, transport, telephones, roads, railways, hospitals, etc.

1952

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as education, training, telephones, vermin, transport, hospitals, roads, etc.

1952-1953

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as roads, telephones, education, hospitals, vermin, etc.

1953

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as hospitals, roads, transport, education, telephones, etc.

1953

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as transport, railways, roads, telephones, education, hospitals, etc.

1953

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as roads, education, telephones, etc.

1953

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as roads, education, telephones, vermin, railways, etc.

1954

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as education, hospitals, roads, vermin, bridges, telephones, railways, etc.

1954

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as roads, hospitals, telephones, etc.

1954

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as roads, hospitals, etc.

1954

Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as roads, education, hospitals, Caledon water scheme, telephones, etc.

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Correspondence of a personal and political nature on various provincial matters such as roads, estimates, dam building in the Orange River and Caledon River, etc.

1955-1962

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issues OFS Extraordinary Congress 1934;

Administrator of OFS Provincial Council address 1949 and 1952; Administrator of OFS budget speeches 1951 and 1952; Minutes, votes and proceedings of the OFS Provincial Council 1951-1952

Opening address of Administrator of OFS Provincial Council 1954; budget speech of Administrator of OFS 1954; minutes, votes, and proceedings of OFS Provincial Council 1954; Administrator's notices (OFS) 1952; Agenda and report of the OFS National Party annual congress, Bloemfontein 10-12/9/1963

1952-1954

Order papers of OFS Provincial Council and amendments proposed for 1949-1954; report of Select Committee on

Extermination of Vermin 1960; report on jackal plague; several reports on roads in OFS; Notes for the OFS Select Committee on Roads, 28/11/1951; Annual report of the Ficksburg Hospital Council 1951/1952; Reports of the Select Committee on rules and orders of the Provincial Council 1952

1949-1960

Ordinances and draft ordinances of Province of the Orange Free State

1949-1959 28 SUBJECT FILES Provincial

issues

Names of members of OFS Provincial Council 1919-1952; notes by DP van der Merwe; Congress of Central SA Regional Development Society 1950; motor vehicles statistics 1949; national road finances 1950; Minutes of the advisory committee of the Higher Technical School of Ficksburg 17/10/1952; Minutes of the National Transport Commission 11/8/1954; National Wool Growers Association memorandum on accumulated levy fund 1954; Maps on proposed road construction as well as progress made with road construction 1960; Expenditure on roads and bridges in the OFS 1952-1970; Floor plan where members of the OFS Provincial Council sit, n.d.

1919-1970

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SUBJECT FILES Provincial issues

Correspondence and information regarding the 1949 provincial election

1948-1949 31 SUBJECT FILES Provincial Documents regarding the 1949 provincial 1949

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issues election

32 PROGRAMMES AND

MEMORABILIA

General Programmes from various occasions; In Memoriam Mrs Pienaar 20/2/1925; Lunch in honour of the Prime Minister Gen. JBM Hertzog, 25/7/1928 Senekal; Official Guide Empire Exhibition South Africa 1936; Centenary Great Trek Winburg 1837-1937; Program Bloedrivier Eeufees 1838-1938; Program Burial Dr JD Kestell, National Women's Memorial 13/2/1941;

Inauguration Voortrekker Monument Pretoria, 16-19/12/1949; Orange Free State Centenary 1854-1954, Rosendal 15/2/1954

1925-1954

33 PUBLICATIONS Book and

Journal

Memorandum of the Education League: Support Your Teachers, March 1952; THE OPEN ROAD, bulletin of the SA Road Federation 1952

1952

34 PERSONAL FILES Correspondence Personal correspondence with family and friends; family photographs

1935-1959

35 NEWSPAPER

CLIPPINGS

General Newspapers and newspaper clippings on various matters