Our first A.G.M. was held in the meeting room at the Royal Philatelic Society on January 27th 1955 and a good number of our members attended. It was a great pleasure for me to be able to take the chair and many helpful items on the agenda for the future conduct of .the CIRCLE were discussed. In addition I had my wish of announcing that our membership had passed the 100 mark. The Dinner after the meeting which I also had the pleasure to attend was most successful. Our Hon. Secretary, Mr. P. T. Saunders, who I thank s o very much for all he has done for our CIRCLE during the past year, will, no doubt, have more to say about this meeting elsewhere in the Bulletin. In the January 1955 Bulletin. I observed that one member is asking for squared circle Jamaica post marks for ANCHOVY, DARLISTON., MAVIS BANK or WHITE HOUSE. These are all scarce postmarks two being very rare. ANCHOVY post office opened 15/11/1881 with this postmark. I have a note of its use from 21/7/82 to .20/7/01 but I have never yet been able to find a copy myself. DARLISTON opened 13/3/86 and I have notes and copies in my collection from 15/7/91 to 29/7/1935 s o this postmark was in use for 49 years or more. In these circumstances I cannot understand why it is so scarce. MAVIS BANK opened some time before 1901 with the large sized squared circle; the earliest known date being 22/l/01. Like ANCHOVY I have never found a copy and it must be considered very rare. WHITE HOUSE opened in 1892 and is known dated from 20/6/92 until 27/10/1915 and is not so difficult to obtain. Needless to say any further information on these-four postmarks would be very welcome. Our member Mr. L.A. Courtney has sent me a new item of Jamaica. It is a T. R. D. mark for POINT HILL, Type 8 dated 1894 the year the post office opened; This is the first example to be found.
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Dear Member,
With our CIRCLE now firmly established we feel we can look back with pride at what has been accomplished during our first year. To receive no less than three invitations to give displays we regard as a great compliment and we are aware that the quality and condition of the material shown came as a surprise to quite a few. For any one member to select up to ten pages from his collection was no easy task and our Hon. Secretary is to be congratulated on the efficient way he assembled and presented the various exhibits.