The Boards and Committees are public bodies to which Welensky was nominated by the Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) Government or whose papers were circulated to him as Chairman of the Unofficial Members' Association. The Central Africa Council is dealt with separately at MSS. Welensky Papers 91/1-103/2. The Rhodes Centenary files are principally from the Liaison A0014 series. See also MSS. Welensky Papers 575/1-3 for other celebrations of the Rhodes Centenary. The exhibition organisation soon adopted the form of a limited liability company. The minutes, particularly of the sub-committees, are incomplete and, due to disorder, have been combined and reordered into quarterly files.

The filing system of the Liaison Office was arranged by the department (or official) of the Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) Government to which the matters covered in a given file related. Excepting that sections 'D' (Development Secretary and predecessors) and 'E' (Economic Secretary) have been combined, this arrangement is generally maintained in this section of the catalogue. Occasional unclassified files, some of which pre-date the Liaison Office, have been incorporated into the relevant divisions of this section. Liaison files relating to the Unofficials' Association will be found in that section; those relating to closer association (C0524, etc.) will be found between MSS. Welensky Papers 64/7-91/1. Others removed to Salisbury (Harare) will be found in their later Federal guise - see, in particular, MSS. Welensky Papers 343/1-360/2. Extracts from Executive Council minutes relating to particular topics and decisions reached are to be found throughout these files and have not been noted separately.

For the copper industry, see MSS. Welensky Papers 341/9-342/8.