Welsh Journals

THE POWYS-LAND CLUB. Annual Meeting 30th December, 1930. The 63rd Annual MEEtING of the Members of the Powys-land Club was held at the Royal Oak Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th December, 1930. In the absence of the President, The Earl of Powis, Mr. Morris P. Jones was voted to the chair, and the members and guests present were:—Mr. R. U. Sayce, Editor of the Montgomeryshire Collections, Mr. J. B. Willans, Mr. and Mrs. W. Millard,, the Rev. John Evans, Mr. R. E. Owen, Mr. Robert Owen, Mr. J. D. Marshall Mr. J. M. Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Allsebrook, Miss Howell, Mrs. Llewelyn Howell, Mrs. J. H. Davies, Miss Parry, Mr. Fellows, Mr. D. H. Hoggins, Miss C. Roberts, Mr. Wm. Llewelyn Davies (National Library of Wales), Mr. James Jones, Lt.-Col. G. R. D. Harrison, Miss C. Verdon and the Joint Hon. Secretaries, Mr. T. Simpson Jones and Mr. A. Stanley Davies. The Minutes of the previous meeting having been printed and circulated as. Vol. XLI., part III., were taken as read, and on the proposition of the Chairman were adopted. Mr. A. Stanley Davies announced apologies for absence from the Earl of Powis, (who sent his best wishes to the members for 1931), Sir Charles Hyde, Mr. Bryan H. S. J. O'Neil (Assistant Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Wales),. the Rev. J. J. Ellis, formerly Vicar of Llanwnog, who expressed his gratitude to the members for their assistance in restoring the beautifully carved old rood screen in Llanwnog Church, Mr. G. Tibbott (National Library of Wales), Mr. E. Estyn Evans, Mrs. Hugh Lewis, Mr. E. Worthington Powell, who has presented the Library of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, with a complete set of The Montgomeryshire Collections," Mr. J. E. Tomley, Mr. George Mountford, Dr. Cyril Fox (Director of the Welsh National Library), and Mr. Woosnam Savage. Dr. Cyril Fox in his letter, said he would like to congratulate the Club on the excellence of Volume XLI. of the Collections. It was not very often that in a publication of the kind one found so wide a range of subjects. He had received a report from Mr. Nash Williams, of the Welsh National Library, on the progress of the work in re-arranging the Powys-land Museum at Welshpool, and he was glad the work was proceeding so satisfactorily.