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7. Members interested
in registering for the
conference should apply to the Society for further
information with registration and hotel reservation
forms. No money can be accepted until after the
registration forms have been issued.
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
An ordinary general meeting of the Society was
held in the Library, Solicitors' Buildings, Four
Courts, Dublin 7, on 23rd November, 1967. The
President took the chair at 2.30 p.m.
The notice convening the meeting was by per
mission taken as read.
The Secretary read the minutes of the ordinary
general meeting held on 20th May 1967 which
were confirmed and signed by the Chairman.
The Secretary read the report of the scrutineers
on the ballot for the Council for the year 1967/68.
The President declared the result of the ballot in
accordance with the scrutineers report as fol
lows: —
Provincial delegates returned unopposed: —
Ulster: John C. O'Carroll.
Munster: Thomas E. O'Donnell.
Leinster: Christopher Hogan.
Connaught: Francis J. Armstrong.
Ordinary Members: The following received the
number of votes placed after their names: —
P. A. O'Donnell 597; P. C. Moore 589; Patrick
Noonan 581; Eunan McCarron 577; Desmond J.
Collins 568; Bruce St. J. Blake 560; Augustus Cul-
len 554; Robert McD. Taylor 553; John Carrigan
548; Francis J. Lanigan 543; Ralph J. Walker
531; Daniel J. O'Connor 526; John J. Nash 525;
John Maher 523; Thomas Jackson (jnr.) 509;
William A. Osborne 505; Joseph L. Dundon 505;
Gerald Hickey 497; George A. Nolan 477; Peter
E. O'Connell 477; Norman T. J. Spendlove 476;
Peter D. M. Prentice 468; Gerald Y. Goldberg
455; James R. C. Green 448; Walter Beautty 446;
James W. O'Donovan 445; Desmon Moran 441;
Joseph P. Black 438; Brendan A. McGrath 433;
Thomas J. Fitzpatrick 431; Thomas V. O'Connor
424.
The scrutineers returned the foregoing as duly
elected members of the Council for the year
1967/8. The following candidates also received
the number of votes placed after their names: —
George .; G. Overend 417; Thomas H. Bacon 417;
William A. Young 400; Timothy J. C. O'Keeffe
377.
On the proposal of Gerard M. Doyle, seconded
by Ralph J. Walker the audited accounts and
balance sheets for the year ended 30th April 1967
circulated with the agenda were adopted. The
President signed the accounts.
On the proposal of Mr. P. C. Moore, seconded
by Mr. John Carrigan, Messrs. Kevans & Sons
were reappointed auditors.
The President moving the adoption of the re
port of the Council said—
Ladies and Gentlemen
The year of office of the outgoing Council has
been one in which the Society have been faced
with vital issues affecting the future of the pro
fession and indeed of our legal system. In open
ing my remarks I would like to pay tribute to the
devoted service of my colleagues on the Council,
not alone in the work of the Council meetings but
on the various committees of the Council, de
putation and preparatory work, much of which
must be done in their spare time and which does
not appear either on the ballot paper which you
receive or in the report of the Council which ac
companies the notice for this meeting. In paying
this tribute I should like to mention particularly
the outgoing members of the Council as a col
league over a period of years, I can bear witness
to the ability and energy with w'hich they dis
charged their duties and I feel that I am only
expressing the unanimous wish of this meeting in
thanking them most sincerely for their services to
the profession. During the past twelve months the
following members of the profession have passed
away and I would like to take this opportunity of
expressing to their families and relatives our sin
cere sympathy.
Mr. Francis A. Gibney, Dublin. Mr. J. A. Allan
Osborne, Co. Donegal, Mr. Bernard McDermot,
Ballybofey, Mr. Dermot McDowell, Dublin, Mrs.
Beatrice Elyan, Cork, Mr. Michael J. Dunne,
Dublin, Mr. Aubrey R. Walker, Dublin, Dr.
Joseph Jackson Wolfe, formerly of Skibbereen,
Mr. James Roger's Tullamore, Mr. Michael J.
Alien, Galway, Mr. Thomas R. Robinson, Dublin,
Dr. John J. Horgan, Cork, Mr. John F. Kealy, Co.
Louth, District Justice Cahill, Gaway, John R.
Gibney, Dublin, Seamus Kerr, Dublin, Joha S.
O'Connor, Dublin, William
Trant-McCarrhy,
Dublin, Edmond A. Rice, Cork,. Mr.. James H.
Gorman, Dublin.
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