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June, 1917.

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Half-Yearly General Meeting. THE Half-yearly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 16th May, in the Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin. Mr. John W. Richards, President, occupied the chair. The following members were present:— T. G. Quirke (Vice-President), W. H. Fry (Vice-President), Sir A. F. Baker, A. E. Bradley, E. H. Burne, J. H. Callan, E. N. Edwards, C. G. Gamble, W. S. Hayes, James Henry, James Moore, A. H. S. Orpen, C. St. G. Orpen, Patrick Rooney, W. V. Seddall, Henry Shannon, W. J. Shannon, W. T. Sheridan, R. A. Macnamara, H. J.'Synnott, Basil Thompson, J. H. Walsh, R. G. Warren, R. B. White, H. D. Draper, John O'Sullivan, E. S. Lowe, D. A. Quaid, H. C. Neilson, A. G. Joyce, W. J. Ryan, M. Noyk, John Moran, James Brady, A. Lane-Joynt, Samuel Kerr, B. M. O'Grady, M. E. Knight (Clones), N. L. Moran, Daniel O'Grady, C. Moran, F. V. Gordon, E. J. Kenny, R. Stephenson, H. O'B. Moran (Limerick), G. M. Collins, J. K. Woods, J. D. O'Connell (Tralee), Sidney Bell, J. M. McDowell, F. E. Bermingham, W. H. Geoghegan, R. T. Holmes, J. T. Doyle, J. G. Lidwell, E. J. O'Farrell, A. T. Ellis, James O'Brien (Nenagh), C. C. Shaw. The Secretary (Mr. W. G. Wakely) read the notice convening the meeting, and also the minutes of the Half-yearly General Meeting held in November last, which latter were confirmed and signed. 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. J. Dyas, Mr. W. Geoghegan, and Mr. H. P. Mayne. Mr. Quirke moved, and Mr. W. Houghton Fry seconded, and it was resolved that the following be appointed Auditors of the Accounts of the Society for the period from 12th May, 1916, to 30th April, 1917 :— Mr. W. W. Carruthers, Mr. David B. Dunne, and Mr. T. A. Ireland. President's Address. THE PRESIDENT, in the opening portion of his address, referred to the war, and to the fact that 118 Irish Solicitors and 76 Apprentices of Solicitors had joined His Majesty's forces. Of these, fourteen Solicitors and eight Apprentices had given up their lives, including the following re ported since last November :—Captain Ivan H. Garvey, Second-Lieutenant J. S. Boal, Second-Lieutenant P. J. Furlong, and Lance- Corporal Herbert S. Findlater. The following had received the Military Cross :—Captain John Ronan, Captain James G. E. Fitz gerald, and Lieutenant Thomas B. L. Disney. The President went on to refer in sympathetic terms to the deaths of the following members of the profession which had occurred since the last Half-yearly Meeting :—Sir Benjamin Whitney, Mr. P. K. White, Sir P. Coll, K.C.B. ; Mr. T. O'Meara, and Mr. R. Netterville Barren. He offered the congratu lations of the Society to Sir J. H. Campbell on his elevation to the post of Chief Justice, and to Mr. James O'Connor, a former member