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- 1955-1962 (Creation)
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1 volume
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Includes signed and (partially) indexed minutes of: Directors' and Board meetings; Annual and Extraordinary General meetings; the Investment and Sealing Committees.
Runs from Board meeting, 6 December 1955 to AGM, 17 July 1962.
Also includes: Pension Fund Committee signed resolutions; meeting papers.
Matters discussed include: appointing Board members and directors; printing arrangements and other production matters; circulation; manager's and editor's reports; exhibitions; the pension fund; the leasing and purchase of property and other accommodation matters; advertising and promotion; luncheon vouchers; the Western Independent; future prospects; Whitfeld & Newman Ltd; Mrs JL Garvin; cheque writing authority; television; life insurance; staff matters; the northern edition; the History of The Observer; relations with The Times; salaries and bonuses; legal actions; colour magazine supplements; foreign sales.
Minutes signed by individuals including: Mary Stocks, Sir Ifor Evans.
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Chronological
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Copyright: Guardian News & Media
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- Stocks; Mary Danvers (1891-1975); trustee of the Observer (Subject)
- Evans; Sir; Benjamin Ifor (1899-1982); Baron Evans of Hungershall; academic and writer (Subject)
- The Observer Limited (1917-1993); newspaper publisher (Subject)
- The Western Independent (1877-1960); newspaper (Subject)
- Garvin; Viola; 2nd wife of JL Garvin (Subject)
- Whitfeld & Newman Ltd; Observer subsidiary company (Subject)