Minutes

              MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE NATIONAL JOINT COMMITTEE FOR SPANISH RELIEF 
HELD AT
14, LORD NORTH STREET, LONDON (by kind permission of Mrs V. de Bunsen) on Tuesday, September 27th, 1938, at 2.30 p.m.
PRESENT: Miss Eleanor Rathbone, M.P. (in the Chair) 
Mrs Isabel Brown 
Mr Ernest Brown 
Mrs V. de Bunsen 
Mrs de Cossio 
Dr Richard Ellis 
Miss Fawcett 
Mr G.T. Garratt 
Lord Listowel 
Miss Edith Pye 
Mr Wilfrid Roberts, M.P. 
Mr Cuthbert Wigham 
Mrs C. Wood 
Lady Young
Dr Betty Morgan (ex officio) 
Mrs F. Clark  -do-
Mr J.H. MacCallum Scott  -do-
1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE: Received from Her Grace the Duchess of Atholl.
2. MINUTES OF LAST MEETING : The minutes of the meeting of September 12th, 1938, having been circulated, were taken as read and signed.
3. MATTERS ARISING ON THE MINUTES: are detailed in the items to follow.
4. EASTERN SPAIN: Discussion of this point was postponed until Mr Garratt's arrival, and is reported under No. 8 below.
5. FINANCIAL STATEMENT: The authorisation for cheque signatures was put before the Committee, discussed and amended as follows: "That the Committee's Bankers, Messrs Coutts & Company be and they hereby are, authorised to honour cheques and orders on the Committee's Ordinary, Basque Children's and Repatriation Accounts, not exceeding £50 (Fifty Pounds) in amount, signed jointly by any two of the following: 
Mr Wilfrid H.W. Roberts, M.P. 
Miss Eleanor F. Rathbone, M.P. 
Dr Betty Morgan. 
Mrs Felice Clark, " 
it being considered preferable that two people should sign cheques instead of one as heretofore. For cheques of £50 and over, Mr Roberts or Miss Rathbone should sign, and cheques under £50 should be signed by any two out of the four people named. Agreed.