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THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-
PRESIDENTS
Mr. John J. Nash of Thurles, has been elected
President of the Society for the coming year. Mr.
Ralph J. Walker of Dublin and Mr. Peter E.
O'Connell of Dundalk have been elected Vice-
Presidents.
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
An ordinary general meeting of the Society was
held in the Library Solicitors' Buildings, Four
Courts, Dublin on Thursday 26th November, 1959.
The President Mr. John R. Halpin took the chair.
The notice convening the meeting was taken as
read.
The minutes of the ordinary general meeting of the
Society held on 23rd May, 195 9, were read, confirmed
and signed.
The audited accounts and balance sheet for the
year ended 3oth April, 1959, were adopted and the
chairman signed the balance sheet.
Messrs. Kevans and Sons were re-appointed as the
Society's auditors.
The Secretary read the report of the scrutineers
of the ballot for the election of the Council and
provincial delegates for the year 1959-60.
The
report stated that for the office of provincial delegate
the following had been returned unopposed ; Ulster
Derrick M. Martin; Munster, Edward Treacy;
Leinster, Reginald J. Nolan; Connaught, Francis
A. Armstrong.
The foregoing were declared duly elected.
The result of the ballot for the 31 ordinary mem
bers of the Council was as follows :
Dermot P. Shaw, 491, John Carrigan, 479, Arthur
Cox, 457, John R. Halpin, 456, Thomas A. O'Reilly,
450, Niall S. Gaffney, 448, Desmond J. Collins, 434,
Eunan McCarron, 431, John J. Nash, 426, Augustus
Cullen, 421, James J. O'Connor, 407, Peter E.
O'Connell, 406, Francis J. Lanigan, 397, Charles
J. Downing, 394, Ralph J. Walker, 394, Patrick
Noonan, $92, George A. Nolan, 389, William J. V.
Comerford, 387, George G. Overend, 374, Terence
de Vere White, 374, Patrick O'Donnell, 369, Robert
McD. Taylor, 368, John Maher, 366, Dinnen B.
Gilmore, 363, John Kelly, 351, James R. Quirke,
346, John J. Sheil, 342, James R. C. Green, 329,
Brendan A. McGrath, 364, James W. O'Donovan,
302, Thomas V. O'Connor, 298.
The President declared the foregoing members
of the Society duly elected to the Council in accor
dance with the scrutineers' report.
The following candidates received the number
of votes passed after their names :
Peter E. Prentice 295, Thomas H. Bacon 281,
Charles W. Hyland 259, Elizabeth Wright 156,
Martin E. Marren 92.
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 great regret the deaths
of the following members :
William D. Mockler,
Cork; District Justice Flattery, who practised as a
solicitor at Letterkenny until he was appointed a
District Justice in 1923 ;
Patrick J. Kennedy,
Carrickmacross;
John Kenneth Lloyd-Blood,
Dublin ;
John Macken, Mullingar ;
Marcus A.
Lynch, Dublin;
Francis J. Gearty, Longford;
District Justice Francis J. McCabe, who practised
as
a
solicitor in Manorhamilton until he was
appointed District Justice at Waterford in 1924;
Robert E. Felton, Dublin ;
Donald McClement,
Cork; Gerard M. Counahan, County Registrar of
Galway ;
John Jermyn, Cork ;
John L. Burke,
Dublin ; Arthur S. Coulter, Dundalk.
Mr. Francis J. Gearty was a popular and genial
member of the Council from 1947 to 1957, and was
Vice-President in the year 1950-51.
Many of us have lost close friends amongst this
list of those who have passed to the Great Beyond,
and to all their relatives and friends I tender the
sympathy of myself and the members of the Council
in their grievous loss.
The Council are grateful to Comhdhail Naisiunta
na Gaeilge for their generous offer of an annual
prize of £50 to be presented for proficiency in the
first Irish Examination in memory of our friend and
colleague, the late Scan O'hUadhaigh.
As you all know the last half-yearly General
Meeting was held as an experiment at Killarney.
I
think all those of us who were present regarded it
as a great success, and personally I hope that it will
be repeated. We had the pleasure of having as our
guests there the President and Secretary of the Law
Society of Scotland and the President and Secretary
of the Incorporated Law Society of Northern
Ireland with their wives. I would like to thank the
President and Council of the County Kerry Solicitors
Association for their assistance in organising this
function.
The objects of holding these Summer
meetings away from Dublin is to give the solicitors
practising in that part of the country a better oppor
tunity of attending the meeting and hearing some
thing of what the Council is endeavouring to do
on behalf of the profession, and also to provide an
occasion for our members to meet together socially
and to get to know one another as friends.
I am
convinced that it is particularly important that we
solicitors, who usually meet as opponents in cases
and as rivals for business, should have as many
opportunities as possible to meet in a friendly social