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Vol. XIII, No. 2.]
June, 1919.
T FOR CIRCULATION
L AMONGST MEMBERS.
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.