Welsh Journals

THE WEST WALES FIELD SOCIETY NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS All secretarial and membership enquiries to be sent to the Hon. Secretary D. G. SANSBURY, Esq., Is-y-Coed, Talybont, Cardiganshire. Finance Hon. Treasurer T. W. Hargourt-Roberts, Esq., Little Milford, Haverfordwest, Pem. Hon. Chief Warden and Chairman R. M. LOCKLEY, Orielton, Pembroke. SUBSCRIPTIONS Will all members in arrears for 1957 please send their subscriptions immediately to the Hon. Secretary above. Fellow-kl Is. (Entitles subscriber to free copy of the Skokholm Report). Member — 10s. 6d. GRANT FROM THE PEMBROKESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL The Council acknowledges with great pleasure a grant of £ 250 from the Welsh Church Funds of the Pembrokeshire County Council, which has been applied towards the reduction of the mort- gage of £ 3,000 outstanding on the Society's freehold property of Dale Fort. This sum, together with £ 750 from the funds of the Society, has enabled the Treasurer to pay offCI,000, thus leaving a balance of £ 2,000 mortgage on Dale Fort. It will be remembered that the purchase price of Dale Fort was £ 6,000, the whole sum being generously advanced on a full mortgage by a member, Donald le Cronier Chapman, Esq. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting was held at Hean Castle, Saundersfoot on 13th April, 1957 by kind invitation of the Rt. Hon. Lord Merthyr. Some 150­175 members were present. The chair was taken at 2.30 p.m. by the Rt. Hon. Lord Merthyr. 1. Mr. Dillwyn Miles proposed and Mrs. Mary Barnes seconded that the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 14th April, 1956 at Picton Castle (already circulated) be accepted as correct. Passed unan- imously. 2. Mr. Thomas Davies, Vice-chairman of the Society, moving the adoption of the Nineteenth Annual Report, said that Nature in Wales' was now widely accepted as a valuable scientific and worth while Journal. The Editors had put in a tremendous amount of work in its production and deserved high praise. The accounts given in the Honorary Treasurer's report show that the Society is in a sound financial condition, particularly so, in that of the original £ 6,000 borrowed for the purchase of Dale Fort, we had, after only 10 years, redeemed two-thirds of this loan.