Guards and Guides of the Files

The Records Division is the initial recipient of all inwards correspondence and the final depository and custodian of all completed communications and documents dealt with at Railway Headquarters, Wellington. It may be termed a clearing house.

Such a clearing house in Government Departments is titled “Records.” Elsewhere it is termed a Filing Division, Correspondence Department, or Mailing Room. All, however, have the same objective in view, and that is the bringing together of all memoranda on related subjects and indexing them so that they are procurable at a moment's notice.