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Leinster—Reginald
J. Nolan.
Connaught—
Christopher E. Callan.
The
foregoing were declared duly elected :
The result of the ballot for the 31 ordinary
members of the Council and the supplemental list
was as follows :—
Dermot P. Shaw, 540; Niall S. Gaffney, 512;
Arthur Cox, 496; Thomas A. O'Reilly, 48 5
;
John Carrigan, 477; Charles J. Downing, 456;
Patrick R. Boyd, 455 ; Desmond J. Collins, 454;
Joseph P. Tyrrell, 454; Cornelius J. Daly, 449;
John R. Halpin, 436 ; Francis J. Lanigan, 432 ;
William J. V. Comerford, 431 ; John J. Nash, 425 ;
Scan O'hUadhaigh, 423 ; Francis X. Burke, 418 ;
Peter E. O'Connell, 417 ;
George A. Nolan, 405 ;
John J. Shiel, 404 ; Ralph J. Walker, 391 ; Terence
de Vere White, 391 ; Robert McD. Taylor, 390;
George G. Overend, 389; Patrick O'Donnell,
375 ; Desmond J. Mayne, 371 ; James R. Quirke,
361;
Patrick Noonan, 350; William Dillon-
Leetch, 341 ; John Maher, 338 ;
James J. O'Con-
nor, 331 ; Eunan McCarron, 327.
Supplemental List:
Francis
J. Gearty, 318;
Christopher Gore-Grimes, 301 ; Benedict J. Daly,
252;
The President declared the foregoing members
of the Society duly elected to the Council and
supplemental list in accordance with the scrutineers
report.
The following candidates received the number of
votes placed after their names :
Gerard M. Doyle, 216 ;
Charles Hyland, 216 ;
Raymond V. H. Downey, 108.
The President moving the adoption of the report
of the Council said :
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
Since our last Meeting in May, I have to record
with regret the death of tlie following members :
William Thornhill, Cork ; Hugh C. F. O'Doherty,
Londonderry and Buncrana; Charles M. Russell,
Dundalk; T. Osborne Davis, Bray; Henry St.
J. Blake, Galway ; Arthur T. Ellis, Dublin ; Joseph
C. Guihan, Tralee; Michael Killeen, Ennis;
Reuben J. Dodd, Dublin; Thomas Healy, Skib-
bereen;
Francis
J. McKenna, Co. Registrar,
Cavan;
Peter O'Connor, Waterford;
Patrick
V. C. Murtagh, Athlone.
To their relatives and friends, on behalf of myself
and the members of the Council and the general
body of the profession I extend our sincere sympathy.
1 must particularly refer to the loss we on the
Council in particular have suffered by the sudden
and untimely death of Henry St. J. Blake, Solicitor,
of Galway; Harry, as he was known to us all,
was in every sense of the word an ornament to the
profession to which we belong. He was a staunch
and loyal Member of our Society, and had served
on the Council from the year 1933 up to the date
of his death; moreover, he was Vice-President
of the Society in the year 1937-38, arid President in
the year 1946-47. He was held in the highest
esteem by the public and his professional brethren
in the City and County of Galway, and was active
and interested in many fields of sport and in par
ticular in Tennis and in Rugby football.
Mr. Peter O'Connor of Waterford was one of the
oldest members of this Society. He achieved
distinction in many fields, not least in athletics.
He held the Olympic Record for the long jump from
1906 until 1922. He served on the Council from
1928
to
1948 and was a former Vice-President.
In him we have lost a trusted and distinguisked
colleague. Mr. P. V. C. Murtagh was a former
member of the Council, and was one of the oldest
and most respected members of the profession.
It is my privilege and part of my duties as your
President to summarise the work of the Council
during the past 12 months, and in particular during
the last six months, since our last meeting, and to
a lesser extent to review and record some of my own
activities during the period of my term of office as
your President.
Some of the matters about which I wish to speak
to you have already been dealt with in the Council's
Report and in my half-yearly address to you last
May.
During the past twelve months, as you will have
observed from a perusal of the Annual Report, as
happened in recent years, the Council has had an
extremely busy year.
During my term there were 14 meetings of the
Council, 81 meetings of the Sub-Committees of
the Council, and 4 meetings of the Disciplinary
Committee.
In this latter connection the work of
the Disciplinary Committee has to all intents and
purposes been suspended during the last 12 months,
due to the fact that they are awaiting a decision of
the Supreme Court in a particular case of which you
are all aware, wherein the jurisdiction of the Com
mittee and its powers are the subject in question.
We can only hope that it will be given this term, so-
that the Disciplinary functions will not much longer
remain in the present unsatisfactory state.
The Annual Report of the Council, which has been
circulated to you, only in effect gives the bare
outline of the work that has been done by the
Council during the past twelve months, it does not
really indicate to
the ordinary member of the
Society the tremendous amount of real work put
into these meetings of the Council and meetings