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No 188 October 1963
Monthly Journal Of The Bristol Exploration Club
B Vol. XVII No. 10
Arrangements for the, B.B. in 1963-64. Kevin Abbey is now in charge of the Postal Department and an arrangement has been worked out whereby all the B.B.'s are addressed and wrapped before being brought round to the Wagon on a Thursday. Members who are at the Wagon will be able to pick up their B.B. as before, and the rest will be immediately posted. By this arrangement, those members who rely on the post should get their B.B. within two days of it being published in Bristol. In connection with this, a few of the members who have not been receiving, the B.B. regularly by post have failed to send their change of address to Bob Bagshaw. Members are reminded that they cannot expect to get any communication from the club unless their up to date address is in the files. Having moaned for some months about the lack of stuff to put in the B.B., the editor now finds himself confronted with a temporary surplus. An attempt will be made to make this B.B. and the November B.B. both of twelve pages, but the rest of the material submitted will go towards making up what we hope will be the biggest and best Christmas B.B. ever. Authors are asked to be tolerant of this situation and are reminded that it is difficult to allocate priorities to the various articles in the stock pile. “Alfie� _______________________________________________________________________________________
The Annual General Meeting The 1963 Annual General Meeting was declared open at.2.50 pm with a good attendance present. D. Hasell was elected as chairman. Three tellers were elected for counting the ballot papers and the Minutes of the 1962 Meeting were read and adopted. The Hon. Sec. then gave his report. He announced that there had been a total of 32 new members elected during the year, compared with 31 and 27 for the preceding two years. The total paid up membership had increased by 7 to 145. In fact, it was somewhat greater than this as several members had paid their subscriptions since he had written his report. He pointed out however that there were still a number of considerably overdue subscriptions. The attendance at the dinner this year was likely to be 130 as distinct from 114 last year. The Charterhouse Caving Committee was now in operation and permits were now available. There were no questions resulting from this report and its adoption was proposed by Mike Luckwell and. seconded. The Chairman then called on the Hon. Treasurer to give his report and after the traditional expressions of surprise at finding the same bloke get up to speak, the report was read. In spite of the large item of expenditure on the Belfry, the club's finances were in good shape. The usual annual plea followed for more expenditure on tackle and the Hon. Treas. suggested that if we were unable to build enough we should consider buying it. He said that he did not consider it sound policy to build up a large surplus of cash, as the club's money should be spent on furthering the club's caving and climbing activities; neither did he think it was a sound plan to show such paper assets as the value of the Belfry. He concluded with a plea for the prompt payment of dinner tickets.