VPRS 774 Inward Registered Correspondence, Annual Single Number System

This series comprises inward correspondence received and maintained by the Public Service Board (VA 886) between 1883 and 1980.Approximately eighty percent of Board correspondence during that period related to positions and personnel in the public service. Much of the correspondence therefore relates to the establishment, advertisement, classification, designation and abolition of positions and to applications for employment, leave entitlements, disciplinary action, payment of gratuities, resignations and retirement, etc. In 1975 position documents ceased to be registered within the general correspondence system and a separate Position File series was established. In 1979 correspondence transactions relating to an individual's employment ceased to be registered within the general correspondence system and a series of Personal Files was established to maintain in one place a comprehensive record of an individual's service.Other correspondence within the series relates to various policy matters, departmental structures, exempt employment, staff development and research and special projects.