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OF THE 



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 jfielb Club, 



FROM MAY, 1919, TO MAY, 1920. 



FIRST SUMMER MEETING, 



ABBOTSBURY. 

 THURSDAY, 19TH JUNE, 1919. 



This year the popular and enjoyable summer meetings of the 

 Club have been resumed. Their abeyance for nearly rive years 

 was due partly to the difficulties of transit and of food supply 

 during the continuance of the war; but more especially it arose 

 from feelings of patriotism, and from not knowing, from day 

 to day, what sad tale the casualty lists might tell. 



The first of these meetings, after so prolonged an interval, 

 was held at Abbotsbury on Thursday, June 19th. About 70 of 

 the members and their friends attended, amongst whom were 

 the President, the Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Editor, and 

 Mr. A. Pope (Vice-President). Upon their arrival at Abbots- 

 bury, the President welcomed the members of the club, 

 and expressed his pleasure that so many were present and 

 that the summer meetings had begun again. 



The party proceeded to the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, 

 where the REV. W. OWEN COCKCRAFT, Rector of Langton 

 Herring, acted as guide. He stated that; 



