At the Perak Branch's Annual General Meeting held at on Saturday 25 July 1998 at the Neptune Room, Ipoh Swimming Club, a total of RM1,780.00 was collected from the following members who donated generously on the spot to the Building Fund which is to be set up by the Branch Committee. Thank you to all of you and may you all be blessed with success and happiness. If you wish to donate more in the future please send your cheques/money order/bank draft payable to Malaysian Nature Society to the Treasurer at the branch address. Any amount is most welcome. All donations are tax-deductible. The total amount collected to date is RM2,060.00.

Loo Hua Lee Major (R) Lam Weng Chong Dr. Ng Ngee Keng Laurence Poh Alex Kuan Wun Sein Jeffrey Tan Tiong Lek Ong Boo Kuan Sin Chuan Eng Ng Chang Chai Dr. Chan Kai Soon Dr. Wang Siew Meng Lim Swee Yean & Kim Chye Edward Yong Chang Kok Kai Sharon Chan Chiew Weng Sen Phang Too Nam Lim Swee Cheng Peggy Lam Mei Leng Teoh Ai Chu Teoh Ai Lee Kok Kem Chong Merlene Wong Christine Leow Woo Sze Min (non-member)

RM300.00 RM250.00 RM200.00 RM200.00 RM100.00 RM100.00 RM100.00 RM100.00 RM100.00 RM100.00 RM100.00 RM100.00 RM50.00 RM 50.00 RM 50.00 RM 50.00 RM 20.00 RM 20.00 RM 10.00 RM 10.00 RM 10.00 RM 10.00 RM 10.00 RM 10.00 RM 10.00

Building Fund Pledges

Other than cash received, pledges of donation to the Branch Building Fund were also received from the members below. Hopefully more members will donate generously to the building although we are in the midst of a recession. Members who would like to contribute by pledging a donation payable at a future date (instalments are acceptable) please write in or send cheques payable to Malaysian Nature Society to the Chairman or Secretary.

Cheaw Hon Ming Michael Yeh Kheng Peng Liew Chee Weng Lim Phaik Imm Alvin Lim Jit Woh Mah King Wah Henry Soon Seong Lim Liew Chin Chow Helen Cheah

RM500.00 RM200.00 RM150.00 RM100.00 RM50.00 RM50.00 RM50.00 RM50.00 RM10.00

National AGM

Kelantan Branch will be hosting the National AGM on 29 - 31 August 1998. Details have been sent to all members from HQ. Those who are interested in attending please contact the Chairman or Secretary to contact others who may be going so that arrangements can be made for car-pooling. Suggested payment to car-owner/drivers for transport only is a minimum of RM30.00 per person (return). A map to the venue is enclosed in this newsletter.

Congratulations

The Committee and Branch members congratulate our Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Har Wai Ming who became a proud father first time around earlier but we missed him out in our last announcement. (Thousand apologies, Wai Ming).

New Members

We welcome the following who applied to join as new members either directly to HQ or through the Perak Branch. If anyone is left out of this list please write in to inform the Chairman as soon as possible.

1. Mr. Chandra Kumar
2. Mr. Liew Shou Lin