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THE GAZETTE
OF THE
of
Vol. XVII., No. 6]
December, 1923.
:
FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING.
The Half-yearly General Meeting of the
Society was held in the Molesworth Hall,
Dublin, on Monday 26th November, 1923,
Mr. Joseph Edward MacDermott (President)
in the chair.
The following members of the Society were
also present :—
A. W. Stirling
(Vice-President), Peter
Scales (Vice-President), W. G. Bradley, P. J.
Brady, J. W. Dyas, E. N. Edwards, Frank
Fottrell, W. H. Fry, C. G. Gamble, W. S.
Hayes, M. L. Hearn, William Henry, R. N.
Keller, James Moore, A. H. S. Orpen, A. D.
Orr, T. G. Ouirke, Patrick Rooney, W. V.
Seddall, W. T. Sheridan, J. H. Walsh, R. G-
Warren, Sir George Roche, James Henry,
C. H. Chaytor,
J.
J. Gaynor, T. D.
McLoughlin, O. P. Beater, E. R. M'C. Dix,
James Brady, E. R. Bate, R. A. O'Brien,
F. C. E. Bland, E. Condell,.F. S. D. Colquhoun
T. R. Craig, F. E. Birmingham, F. S. de V.
White, B. R. W. Doran, Edward S. Lowe,
W. T. Mackay, H. D. Draper, A. Tuthill, C.
St. G. Orpen, E. J. Mallins, Samuel Kerr, H.
R. Whelan, P. J. Collins, J. Fagan, V. F.
Kirwan, D. C. Maher, Q. W. Kennedy, R. W.
MacNeice, J. McDermott, P.Glynn, D. Dunne,
S. M. Bell, T. A. Ireland J. Moran.
The Secretary read the notice convening
the meeting, also the minutes of the Half-
yearly Meeting, held on 16th May last, which
latter were signed by the President, who
also signed the audited accounts for the year
ending 30th April, 1923.
The Secretary read
the report of
the
scrutineers of the ballot for Council for the
year, which stated that the following had
been returned as provincial delegates:-—
W. H. Halpin (Ulster), James S. Gaffney
(Munster), Michael Buggy (Leinster), and
Henry J. Concannon (Connaught) ; and the
following having obtained the number of
votes placed after their names, have been
elected as the thirty-one ordinary members of
the Council:—P. J. Brady, 195 ;
J. E.
MacDermott, 192;
T. G. Ouirke,
192-
W. S. Hayes, 179; E. H. Bufne, 173; P.
Scales, 171 ; A. H. S. Orpen, 168;
J. W.
Richards, 162 ; W. G. Bradley, 160 ; W. V.
Seddall, 158;
R. G. Warren, 156;
B.
Thompson,
156;
C.
G. Gamble
152;
F. Fottrell, 148; A. D. Orr, 145 ; E. N.
Edwards, 143;
J. Moore, 143; W. T.
Sheridan, 142 ; C. P. Wilson, 141 ; Sir J. R.
O'Connell,'139; W. H. Fry, 139; R. B.
White, 136 ; J. H. Walsh, 133 ; M. L. Hearn,
133 ; A. W. Stirling, 132 ; P. Rooney, 127 ;
R. N. Keller, 125; W. Henry, 120 ;
J. W.
Dyas, 115; James O'Connor, 111; R. N.
Matheson, 111 ;
and the following for a
supplemental list to fill vacancies :—R. D.
English, 79, and H. G. Morris, 76.
THE PRESIDENT in moving the adop
tion of the annual report of the Council,
said :—Before I submit to you formally a
resolution for the adoption of our Report
permit me
to make a few comments.
I
venture to do so, not that I hope to impart
to you any item of novelty or wisdom, but