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Vol. XV., No 2.]
June, 1921.
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LAMONGST MEMBERS.
Half-yearly General Meeting.
The Half-yearly General Meeting of the
Society was held on Wednesday, the llth
May, in the Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts,
Mr. Charles G. Gamble, President, occupied
the chair.
The following members were present:
E. N. Edwards (Vice-President), M. L.
Hearn (Vice-President), A. E. Bradley, P. J.
Brady, E. H. Burne, W. S. Hayes, James
Moore, J. E. MacDermott, T. G. Quirke,
J. W. Richards, Patrick Rooney, W. V.
Seddall, W. J. Shannon, R. G. Warren,
R. Blair White, J. W. Dyas, Sir J. R.
O'Connell, Peter Seales, W. T. Sheridan,
R. A. Andrews, R. N. Keller, T. F. Monks,
A. H. S. Orpen, A. D. Orr, A. W. Stirling,
C. St. G. Orpen, H. J. McCormick, A. E.
Walker, D. A. Quaid, E. Condell, D. B.
Gilmore, P. Kenney, V. Kennedy, C. G. P.
Wilson, W. H. C. Lloyd, R. W. MacNeice,
Ivan Howe, E. J. Mallins, G. E. G. White,
F. V. Gordon, James Brady, C. T. B. White,
S. Bell, John Moran, Daniel O'Grady, Samuel
Kerr, E. B. Maguire, D. H. Charles, M. J.
Dwyer, A. T. Ellis, and E. R. Bate.
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 Council to be held on 21st November
next : Messrs. E. F. Collins, M. Dawson,
H. P. Mayne, F. Sharpe and N. Taylor.
Mr. Edwards, V.P., moved, Mr. Hayes
seconded, and it was resolved that Mr. W. W.
Carruthers, Mr. D. B. Dunne and Mr. T. A.
Ireland be appointed Auditors of the Society's
accounts for the year ending 30th April last.
THE PRESIDENT addressing the meeting
said: The disastrous condition
of
this
country, and the continuance of civil strife
is one that, in common with the rest of the
community, we, as a profession, deplore, for
professional pursuits have become most
difficult and harrassing to carry on.
The conditions prevailing re-act acutely on
the prosperity and utility of the legal pro–
fessions, and we who are dependent on pro–
fessional pursuits naturally desire, not only
from that point of view, but for every other
reason, to see our country as it might and
should be in peace and prosperity.
We are not as a body political or even semi-
political politics do not enter into our
functions. Our professional duties are apart
from either political or party strife, and we
can but continue to carry on to the best of our
ability our duties to the public, handicapped
though we be by many difficulties.
The Solicitor?' profession, however,
in
itself represents an influential section of the
whole community in closest touch with the
affairs and concerns of
the rest of
the
inhabitants, and I may be permitted to
express the conviction that in the grave
circumstances of the present its members will
at all times and at all seasons be true to the
best traditions and dignity of professional
life, and lend their influence to subduing and
effacing
the
angry passions at present
prevalent.
It seems optimistic, but with the license
allowed to me as your President I will venture
to express the hope that before our next
General Meeting we may see a settlement in
this country, and have once more got going
in
peace
and
harmony
under
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