The Gazette 1919-20

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June, 1919.

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Half-Yearly General Meeting. THE Half-yearly General Meeting of the Society was held in the Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin, on 16th May. Mr. Robert G. Warren, President, occupied the chair. The following members were present : W. T. Sheridan (Vice-President), J H. Callan (Vice-President), A. E. Bradley, P. J. Brady, E. H. Burne, J. W. Dyas, W. H. Fry, C. G. Gamble, W. S. Hayes, James Henry, T. F. Monks, C. St. G. Orpen, A. D. Orr, T. G. Ouirke, J. W. Richards, Patrick Rooney, Peter Seales, W. V. Scddall, W. J. Shannon, A. W. Stirling, Basil Thompson, R. B. White, D. B. Dunne, D. A. Quaid, T. H. Kenny, Albert Woodcock, Sir J. R. O'Connell, E. R. Bate, R. N. Keller, S. M. Bell, W. H. Geoghegan, John Read, L. F. Kenny, J. J. Beatty, B. M. O'Grady, Daniel O'Grady, E. J. Kenny. The Secretary (Mr. W. G. Wakely) read the minutes of the meeting held last November, which were signed by the President. The President nominated the following members to act as scrutineers of the ballot for election of Council, to be held next November : Mr. E. F. Collins, Mr. M. Dawson, Mr. W. Geoghegan, Mr. H. P. Mayne, and Mr. F. Sharpe. On the motion of Mr. Sheridan, V.-P., seconded by Mr. J. H. Callan, V.-P., Mr. W. W. Carruthers, Mr. David B. Dunne, and Mr. T. A. Ireland were appointed Auditors of the accounts of the Society for the year ending April 30th, 1919. The President, addressing the meeting, referred to the loss which the Society and the profession at large had suffered through the death of Mr. Trevor Overend, who had been a member of the Council for nearly

twenty years, and who filled the President's chair in the year 1894-95. Mr. Overend took the greatest interest in their Society, and when, after many years of loyal service on the Council, they requested some past Presidents to act with them in connection with the memorial to those who had fallen in the war, he was one of the first to reply. He attended all their meetings, and gave them valuable assistance by his sound advice (hear, hear). While he was on the Council he took especial interest in the educational side of their duties, and took an active part in the framing of the regulations for examinations. He had always maintained that the Society should offer every inducement possible to students to thoroughly prepare themselves for the practice of their profession by careful study ; and, in order to supple– ment the resources of the Society for this purpose, he, by his will, bequeathed to the Society the sum of £1,000, the income of £500 to be applied towards a scholarship at the preliminary examination, and of the remainder as a scholarship at the final. He (the President) hoped that war was a tiling of the past. But the conclusion of peace would not relieve the Society from the con– sideration of many serious and difficult prob– lems arising out of the war. Many of their professional brethren and apprentices were now returning to civil life, having abandoned all their private interests in order that they might serve their country. Many have suffered mentally, physically, and financially, and applications were coming before the Council affecting these men in different ways. These applications were having careful and sympathetic consideration, and any man who had served his country should have every advantage it was in their power to give him.