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Patrick C. Moore, Hugh O’Donnell, T. Desmond
McLoughlin, James Tuohy, Dermott Curran, Joseph
P. O’Connell.
The notice convening the Meeting was taken
as read. The Minutes o f the Ordinary General
Meeting held on 17th May, 1951 and the Special
General Meeting held on 29th May, 1951 were
read, confirmed and signed by the Chairman.
The audited Accounts for the year ended 30th
April, 1951, were unanimously adopted and with
the consent o f the meeting were signed by the
•Chairman. Messrs. Kevans & Sons were re
appointed Auditors for the year to end 30th April,
1952.
The Secretary read the report o f the Scrutineers
•of the Ballot for the election o f the Council and
Provincial Delegates for the year to end on the day
Before the date of the Ordinary General Meeting
in November, 1952. The report stated that for the
Office o f Provincial Delegate the following had
been returned unopposed :—
Ulster, Derrick M. Martin; Munster, John J.
Dundon;
Leinster, Reginald J. Nolan ;
Connaught, Christopher E . Callan.
The foregoing were declared duly elected.
The report further stated that the following
had been elected as the thirty-one Ordinary members
o f the Council and Supplemental fist, having
received the number o f votes placed after their
respective names :—
R
esult
of
C
ount
1. Arthur Cox, 43 5 ; 2. Henry St. J . Blake, 429 ;
3. William J. Norman, 418 ; 4. Daniel O’Connell,
4 16 ; 5. Joseph Barrett, 408 ; 6. Dermot P. Shaw,
404 ; 7. Patrick R. Boyd, 403 ; 8. Patrick F. O’Reilly
398; 9. John Carrigan, 395 ; 10. Joseph P. Tyrrell,
39 2 ; 1 1 . Thomas A. O’Reilly, 390; 12. James
J . O’ Connor, 389; 13. Sean O hUadhaigh, 379;
14. Niall S. Gaffney, 361 ; 15. John J . Sheil, 356 ;
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John J. Nash,. 351 ; 17. Louis E . O’Dea, 350;
18. Francis J. Gearty, 349; 19. Desmond R.
Counahan, 347 ; 20. John R. Halpin, 344; 21.
Roger Greene, 344; 22. James R. Quirke, 339;
23. Gerald J. O’Donnell, 330 ; 24. William S.
Huggard, 329;
25. Desmond J. Mayne, 320;
26. George G. Overend, 3 1 2 ; 27. Maurice M.
Power, 297 ; 28. Ralph J. Walker, 295 ; 29. Francis
J . Lanigan, 280; 30. John L. Kealy, 277 ; 31.
•Cuthbert J. Furlong, 255.
Supplemental list in case
■ of vacancies :
32. John B. McCann, 229; 33. John
Maher, 228 ; 34. Raymond French, 223.
The President declared the result o f the election
in accordance with the Scrutineers’ report.
The President in moving the adoption o f the
report said :—
“ L
adies
and
G
entlemen
,
I regret that my opening address to the profession
must also be my swan song. I did not" have an
opportunity of addressing the half-yearly meeting
in May due to my absence in the United States.
On that occasion Mr. Niall Gaffney, Vice-President,
read my address to the meeting of the Society and
I would here like to acknowledge my indebtedness
to him for so doing.
You have/ now had in your hands for some
days the Report o f the Council for the year just
ended. I am sure you have all had time to read
the Report before the meeting and this will save
me the necessity o f going into in detail the
various matters with which it deals.
O
b it u a r y
Since the Ordinary General Meeting o f the Society
in May last some o f our brothers have been taken
from us. The profession is poorer by the deaths of
Aylward R. O’Connor, Henry D. Keane, Denis
J. Bergin, Robert Macredy, John W. Simpson,
John J. Rea, George C. Lepper, Charles O’Brien,
William E. C. Lloyd, William J. Craig, Edwin
M. Lloyd, Gerald A. G. Byrne, Patrick McGrath,
William Ramage, John Foley, William Shaw,
J . Laurence, R. Hastings, B. Leslie Winslow,
Patrick J. Collins.
Another loss which the profession will sustain
is the resignation o f Mr. George Acheson Overend
from the Council. Mr. Overend has served on the
Council for very many years and has been an out
standing figure at its Council table. President in
1942, Mr. Overend has been a tireless worker
on the Council since the day he joined it. Those
members of the Society who have never worked
on the Council can never realise the tremendous
amount o f time and energy which Mr. Overend
devoted to the profession as a whole over a period
o f years. It gives me great pleasure to ask you
to show by your acclamations your gratitude to
Mr. Overend who, now retiring, is being succeeded
by his son, Mr. Gordon Overend.
I know that every President likes to feel that
he lays down the chain o f office feeling that he
has made some little extra contribution to the work
of the Society for the year. I think the Annual
Report will show that your Council has not been
idle. In fact, it is difficult for anybody who is not
a member of the Council to appreciate the very
considerable volume o f work which passes through
the hands o f the Council and its sub-Committees
during the year. Not all o f it can be recorded in
the Annual Report nor referred to in a President’s
speech and when I tell you that last year’s President,
Mr. Norman, attended over 103 meetings durin
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