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June, 1913.
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FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS.
Half-Yearly Meeting.
THE' Half-yearly General. Meeting of
the
Society was held in the Hall of the Society,
Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, on Friday,
16th May. The chair was occupied by the
President
(Mr.
James Henry),
and
the
following members were present :
C. G. Gamble
(Vice-President), Gerald
Byrne, R. A. Macnamara, C. A. Stanuell,
George Collins, A. E. Bradley, H. J. Synnott,
C. St. G. Orpen, W. V. Seddall, James Moore,
R. Blair White. James Murphy, A. H. S.
Orpen, W. H. Fry, P. K. White, H. D.
Draper, Patrick Rooney, H. C. Neilson
(jun.), W. J. Ryan, Elliott M'Neill, James
Braciy,
E.
Condell, J. G. Liclwell, Ouintin
W. Kennedy. J. J. McDonald, R. A. O'Brien,
John Read, Wm. Read, G. E. G. White,
W. H. Sutton, M. C. O'Halloran, Sydney Bell,
C. T. B. White, James Davis, G. A. G. Byrne,
W. Grove White, R. T. Holmes, C. G. P.
Wilson, W. J. Byrne, John Minton, Edwin
Lloyd.
THE PRESIDENT, addressing the meet–
ing, said : We meet under the shadow of a
great calamity. Mr.
Justice Wright has
passed from our midst with startling sudden–
ness. On Wednesday he was engaged in the
performance of his judicial duties ;
to-day we
mourn the loss of an able, fearless, and
upright Judge. Throughout his career at the
Bar he had that best testimony to his ability
the appreciation, esteem, and respect of
the members of the Solicitors' profession.
He was held in eqtially high esteem ever since
he obtained his well-merited promotion to the
Bench. To those of us who came into closer
contact with him, he was consistently a kind
and genial friend. We deplore his loss, and
desire to express our heartfelt sympathy with
his widow and children
in
their sudden
bereavement.
The Secretary (Mr. W. G. Wakely) read the
minutes of the Half-yearly General Meeting
held upon 26th November, 1912, which were
confirmed.
On
the motion of Mr. Gerald Byrne,
seconded by Mr. George Collins,
it was
resolved that Mr. F. Gifford, Mr. W. W.
Carruthers,
and Mr. D. B. Dunne be
appointed Auditors of the Society's Accounts
for the year ending 30th April last.
The President nominated the following
members of the Society to act as Scrutineers
of ballot for Council, to be held on 21st
November next: Mr. J. J. Cartan, Mr. E.
N. Edwards, Mr. W. Geoghegan, Mr. J. G.
Perry, and Mr. P. K. White.
THE PRESIDENT stated he desired to
refer to some of the more important of the
matters which had engaged the attention of
the Council since the Half-yearly Meeting of
November last, and first he would refer to
the question of the reform of County Court
procedure which, he said, had been before the
Council for the past 16 or 17 years.
It was
considered last year not only at the half-
yearly meetings, but also at a special meeting
in January, and a resolution was passed call–
ing for a Commission of Inquiry into the state
of the law and procedure in the County Courts.
That
resolution was
sent
to
the Chief
Secretary, but nothing resulted until some
time late in February, when three members
of the Society, Messrs. P. J. Brady, Lardner
and O'Shee, had an interview with the Chief
Secretary. They subsequently received from