9. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEBRUARY, 1945. MINUTES OF THE 15TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE S.A. ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY HELD AT 3 P.M. ON SATURDAY. 24TH FEBRUARY, 1945, AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, JOHANNESBURG

Ostrich ◽  
1945 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-156
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
The Public

The Prehistoric Society: From East Anglia to the World

1985 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grahame Clark
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Public Library ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Prehistoric Archaeology ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World

It is doubly appropriate that the Prehistoric Society should celebrate its jubilee in Norwich. The Society was born in the Castle on 23 February 1935 of a parent conceived improbably enough in the Public Library at a meeting held on 26 October 1908 to inaugurate an East Anglian Society ‘for the study of all matters appertaining to prehistoric man’. The question I want you to consider in this address is how the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia developed so rapidly to the point at which it achieved national status as The Prehistoric Society. Let me begin by removing one misapprehension. My hands are not dripping with East Anglian blood nor have I just wiped them clean. The Prehistoric Society was not the outcome of a revolutionary putsch. It stemmed from nothing more dramatic than a recognition that the Prehistoric Society had long ceased to be East Anglian. When we met at Norwich Castle for our Annual General Meeting in 1935 and passed the resolution which eliminated the words ‘of East Anglia’ from our title we were merely recognizing a fact, that we had long ceased to be East Anglian in anything but name. There were no dissentient votes.The two men who between them set the Prehistoric Society on its feet came from different but complementary backgrounds. W. G. Clarke was Norfolk born and bred and earned his living as a working journalist in Norwich, while cultivating a wide-ranging interest in natural history and prehistoric archaeology.

The Early Shipping Conference System of Singapore, 1897–1911

1969 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiang Hai Ding
Keyword(s):  
General Meeting ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Annual General ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Legislative Council ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
Conference System

The shipping conference system in Singapore was under severe and sustained criticism three times in the last 60 odd years. In 1910 the colonial Straits Settlements legislative council in Singapore passed the Freight and Steamship Bill whose lengthy preamble contained the indictment that the conference system was ‘injurious to the trade of the colony and inconsistent with the public welfare’. In 1930, during the annual general meeting of the Singapore Branch of the Straits Settlements Association, a leading lawyer, Roland Braddell, launched a bitter attack on the conference. Subsequently a public meeting was held which called on the colonial government to see ‘if we cannot rid ourselves of this octopus which is strangling this Colony’.

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