Several finding aids have been prepared to facilitate physical and intellectual control as well as research purposes. These include:

a) Shelf list and Index to Secretariat Archives – Early series – 1919 – 1927

b) Shelf list to Secretariat Archives divided to major functions as Heads and to Sub-heads 1927-1957

c) Guide to Provincial and District – Commissioners Annual Reports 1917 – 1959

d) Guide to microfilms of Regional and District books

e) Guide to the German Records Vol. I & II

f) Map catalogue

g) Shelf lists for all records in the National Archives

h) Descriptive lists of Secretariat Records – Native Affairs group