West Indies Development and Welfare Organisation: Registered Files

This series consists of files of the Development and Welfare Organisation relating to its wide range of responsibilities in the fields of economic and social development, including projects arising from the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1940. Subjects covered include agriculture, fisheries, industrial dvelopment, transport and employment, and the development of welfare services, health, education and housing, together with public administration and public relations.

Includes files relating to the Organisation's involvement with the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission (later the Caribbean Commission), the West Indian Conferences of 1944 and 1946, the 1947 Conference on Closer Association, and the Standing Closer Association Committee which resulted from it and papers of the Commission on Unification of Public Services.