Includes: an extract from the "Transvaal Leader" on gold production in the Transvaal [South Africa]; a draft of the Board of Trade (Provisional Orders) Bill; notes on the Licensing Law Amendment Bill (1890); notes for a question in the House of Lords on Sunday Labour in the Mercantile Marine, in Britain and abroad, including a letter from Sir Walter Howell [Marine Secretary to the Board of Trade]; an annotated leaflet on the Budget and Unemployment by Sir Francis Mowatt; a draft memorandum on depression in the building trades; notes by Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith [Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade] on the effects of steel import duty on the Oldham [Lancashire] cotton manufacturers, with statistics of the cotton industry; statistics for the London Bankers' Clearing House (1868-1909); a memorandum on the Motor Vehicle Industry; the Census of Production preliminary tables for shipbuilding, engineering, cycle and motor production, leather and paper production (1907); a memorandum on London Traffic regulation by David Lloyd George [President of the Board of Trade].Other subjects include: a commercial treaty with Portugal on wine duty.