The Gazette 1946-49

maith Horn a thabhairt fd ndeara go gcuireann an oiread ball ata laithreach suim in imeachtai an Chumainn a rialuionn cursai ar ngairmeach. Com- hartha is ea 6 sin go bhfuil spiorad folldin in ar mease agus fosta go bhfuil muinin ag an mballriocht as an gComhairle ata toghtha acu. Ni ceart go mbeadh aon aturnae neamh-shuimiuil in ar gComhlucht 6 tharluionn an oiread sin ceisteanna achrannacha agus deachrachtai a bheith ag gabhdil duinn sna laetheannta so. Td costas maireachtana dultha go n:6r i rr.e'id, td costas cothuithe ar n-oifigi dha mheadu de reir a chdile agus td dian-iarracht ar siul ag aicmi eile ar obair is ceart a bheith gha ddanamh ag aturnaethe do ghabhdil ar laimh acu f6in. Dd bhif sin is ceart dtiinn uile seasamh guala ar ghualainn agus cabhair a thabhairt don dream a thoghmuid fern chun ceart ar ngairmeach do chosaint. GENTLEMEN, The Council's Report for the year is in your hands and it renders it unnecessary for me to take up much of your time by delivering a lengthy address on this occasion, our Annual General Meeting. Since our last meeting the following members of our profession have died : Edward O'Shaugh- nessy, Waterford; Henry Murphy (formerly Co. Registrar for Monaghan until 1938); Peter Levins Macardle, Dundalk; John Tarrant, Sligo; Frederick W. Gilligan, Dublin; Frederick G. Dickson, Derry and Fahan, Co. Donegal; Robert M. Kieran, Dublin; Harry R. Maunsell, Dublin; Patrick Sarsfield Brady, Dublin; Patrick Howard, Dublin; Robert G. Ball, Limerick and Geo. W. Beaumont, Dublin. Membership of Society I have still to record our disappointment that there remain some solicitors too selfish and too little imbued with the spirit of professional solidarity to join the Society, whose membership ought to coincide in numbers with the admitted and practising membership of the profession. As the Annual Report records, out of a total of 1,391 solicitors on the Roll in these 26 Counties, only 1,092 are members of the Society. Each of us can and should play his part by exhortation and example in removing this reproach upon our body. Non-members should be urged, especially at present, when our profession is menaced by the narrowing margin between our gross takings and the expenses inseparable from earning our living, and also by the efforts being made by members of other professions and callings to take

P. King, J. H. German, Ivan P. Howe, Brendan T. Walsh, W. S. McCullough, Patrick Golden, Mrs. Dorothea M. O'Reilly, Denzil B. J. O'Donnell, T. J. Kirwan, James J. O'Connor. By permission of the meeting the notice convening the meeting was taken as read. The minutes of the Half-yearly General Meeting held on the 18th May were read, confirmed and signed by the Chairman. The audited accounts of the Society for the year ended 3oth April, 1948, were adopted, and with the consent of the meeting were signed by the Chairman. Messrs. Kevans & Sons, Auditors and Accountants, were reappointed Auditors for the year to end 3Oth April, 1949. The Secretary read the report of the Scrutineers of the Ballot of the Council for the year to end 26th November, 1949, which stated that the following had been returned as Provincial Delegates : Ulster, Derrick M. Martin; Munster, John J. Dundon; Leinster, Reginald J. Nolan; Connaught, Christopher E. Callan; and that the following had been elected as the 31 ordinary members of the Council having received the number of votes placed after their respective names : Henry St. J. Blake, 510; Arthur Cox, 472; Louis E. O'Dea, 457; Daniel O'Connell, 456; W. L. Duggan, 447; J. Travers Wolfe, 443 ; Joseph Tyrrell, 436; William J. Norman, 434; Patrick F. O'Reilly, 426; Joseph Barrett, 422 ; Sean 0 hUadhaigh, 422 ; Dermot Shaw, 422 ; Thomas A. O'Reilly, 421 ; John Bolger, 419 ; John P. Carrigan, 418 ; George A. Overend, 396 ; Roger Greene, 396; William S. Hayes, 395; Patrick R. Boyd, 394; Francis J. Gearty, 385 ; William S. Huggard, 384; James R. Quirke, 381 ; Desmond R. Couna- han, 369; Niall S. Gaffney, 367; John J. Dunne, 353 ; Anthony J. Malone, 350 ; John S. O'Connor, 343 ; Henry P. Mayne, 343 ; John D. O'Connell, 332; Gerald J. O'Donnell, 317; Peter Woods, 309; with the following as the supplemental list in case of vacancies : John J. Smyth, 292 ; Patrick J. Murphy, 227 ; Peter D. M. Prentice, 181. The President in moving the adoption of the Annual Report said :— '.A UAISLE, 16. athas orm fdilte a chur romhaibh ag an gCruinniu Cinn-Bliana so na Comhluchta. Is