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hundred
solicitors
practicing
throughout
the
country. There is therefore an ample supply of
potential masters. There is therefore no limitation
official or otherwise on entry to our profession.
It is usual for a President on an occasion like
this to give some advice to the newly admitted
solicitors. I hesitate to do so, I am quite satisfied
that having seen some of the examinations they
had to pass
that they are better qualified
to
advise me.
Iwould like to make one suggestion
and I hope my colleagues in the city will forgive
me this little self indulgence. It has always been
recommended by the Society and by my prede
cessors that a newly admitted solicitor should not
set up in practice on his own straight away but
that he should see practice for a year or two
with an established firm, either as an assistant
or as a junior partner. I appeal to and advise
these newly admitted solicitors today to try and
see that practice in the country. There are very
many solicitors
throughout
the country parti
cularly in the western portions of the country who
are finding it very difficult to get assistants. Every
body wants to work in a city. That is a great
mistake, I assure you that a year or two in a
country practice would give you a wealth of ex
perience which you cannot possibly get in any
other circumstances and I urge those of you who
are not already committed to long term engage
ments to make it known to our Secretary that you
are available for employment in these areas.
The only other word of advice I would like to
give is this—I said what you have chosen is a
profession not only with rights but also with
duties and one of these duties is to make your
services available to the public. For this you will
be paid if the litigant can pay you, but if he
cannot, remember we have always been able to
say that no litigant with a reasonable case to
defend or prosecute and no criminal charged with
an offence was ever denied a lawyer to plead his
cause solely because of want of money.
I thank you all for having listened to me so
attentively. I would like to conclude by saying,
as
this
is
the last opportunity I will have of
speaking from
this platform, that it has been
the proudest achievement of my
life
to have
had the honour to lead this profession for the
past year and I trust that the same honour and
privilege will be in store for many of you who
are listening to me so patiently, today.
. Parchments were then presented to the follow
ing : —
Roger P. Ballagh, 209, Upper Rathmines Road,
Dublin; Patrick D. M. Branigan, Ard Muire,
Battery Road, Longford; Cornelius Cronin, Kil-
murray, Lissarda, Go. Cork; Rosemary Durcan,
57, Dartmouth Square, Dublin; Patrick D. Fal-
lon, 56, Knocknashee, Goatstown, Go. Dublin;
Thomas F. Farrell, B.C.L., LL.B. (N.U.I.), Clash,
Tralee, Go. Kerry; Patrick Fitzgibbon, B.G.L.,
LL.B. (N.U.I.), 22,'William Street, Listowel, Co.
Kerry; Thomas D.
Fleming, B.G.L.,
LL.B.
(N.U.I.), Rossdarrig, Gastleknock, Co. Dublin;
Conor G. Foley, B.C.L., LL.B.
(N.U.I.), Gort,
Co. Galway; Brian G. Geraghty, B.A., B. Comm.,
H.Dip., LL.B. (N.U.I.), "Galmon", Taylor's Hill,
Galway. (Mrs.) Avice M. A. Harrington. B.G.L.
(N.U.I.), 24, Alien Park Drive, Stillorgan, Go.
Dublin; Catherine M. L. Harrington, B.C.L.
(N.U.I.),
"Youghal's House", Clonakilty, Go.
Cork;
Elizabeth Heffernan, B.C.L.
(N.U.I.),
Puddingfield, Tipperary; Anthony M. D. Kirwan,
3/5, Suffolk Street, Dublin; Francis P. Malone,
136, Mount Prospect Ave., Glontarf, Dublin
(Patrick O'Connor Memorial Prize); Michael
Martin, "Hillview", Kilcull
en Road, Naas, Co.
Kildare; James P. Mulhern, L.Ph., M.A. (N.U.I.)
Ballymabin, Dunmore East, Co. Waterford; Kieran
M.F. Murphy, The Square, Gort, Co. Galway;
Timothy A. Murphy, The Square, Abbeyfeale,
Go. Limerick;
John F. Neilan
(Jnr.), Abbey
Street, Roscommon; John T. D. O'Dwyer, Bally-
haunis, Co. Mayo; Edmund F.
Seery, 19,
St.
Martins Park, Lr. Kimmage Rd., Dublin; John
A. Sheedy, B.G.L. (N.U.I.), Sungari, Mountrath,
Co. Laois; Aveen M. J. Smith, 247, Navan Road,
Dublin; Valeric J. M. Walsh, "Valmar", Herbert
Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Findlater Scholarship
William O. H. Frv, B.A., LL.B.
(T.C.D.),
"Kinlough", Torquay Rd., Foxrock, Dublin.
Scan OhUadhaigh Memorial Prize
Colm M. K. McGeehin, Meenagoland, Ballina-
more, Co. Donegal.
SOCIETY'S STANDARD OF CONDITIONS
OF SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION AND
PRIVATE CONTRACT
The Council
recently
sought
the opinion of
Counsel to settle the standard forms of contract
on
several questions
raised by members. The
Standard Conditions provide
(Private Contract
Clause 22; Public Auction Clause 24) that any
outstanding legal estate shall be traced and got
in by the purchaser at his own expense. It was
represented that this might, in some cases, cause