| Description | Includes: exemption of certain staff and sub-contractors from call up, 1914-18; shortages of materials for paper making, petrol, coal, during and after the war; applications for import licenses etc; losses by Portals from increases in costs of labour and materials and revisions of contracts, 1915-21; work permit for an Italian, 1918; attitude of Bank to possibility of Portals obtaining orders from 'the trade', 13 - 16 April 1918, 21 July 1920, 24 February 1921, 27 March 1922, etc; annual statistics of quantities and prices of various printing orders, 1894-1917 (filed 9 April 1918); employment of Bank of France artist for new watermark, 1919. |