The Gazette 1964/67

Telephone (Amendment) Regulations, 1965—33/1965.

Vocational Education Committees—Allowances to Members

increased—226/1964.

Vocational Education—Conditions regulating Contracts after

2nd November, 1964—234/1964.

SOCIAL SERVICES

SUBJECT MATTER AND REFERENCE NUMBERS

Social Welfare—Additional Conditions for receipt of Un

employment Benefit by share Fishermen prescribed—

_ 244/1964.

Social Welfare (Disability, Unemployment and Marriage

Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations, 1965, which increases

to io/— per day the amount which applicant may receive

without affecting unemployment benefit—18/1965.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1964—Sections

5, 8, 9 and io in force from ist November, 1964—238/

1964.

Unemployment Assistance Employment Period Order 1965—

43/1965.

TRANSPORT AND TRAFFIC

SUBJECT MATTER AND REFERENCE NUMBERS

Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Act, 1963,

in force from

ist January, 1965—291/1964.

Air Navigation—Warsaw Convention, 1929, as amended by

Hague Protocol—applied to non-international carriage

by air after ist February, 1965—264/1964.

Athlone (Co. Westmeath) Parking Bye-Laws, 1964—17/1965.

Ballina (Co. Mayo) Parking Bye-Laws, 1964—27/1965.

Cavan Traffic and Parking Bye-Laws, 1964—28/1965.

Cork Airport (Parking Fees) Bye-Laws, 1964, in force from

I2th October, 1964—241/1964.

Drogheda (Co. Louth) Traffic and Parking Bye-Laws, 1964—

267/1964.

Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Traffic (One Way Streets) (Amend

ment) Temporary Rules, 259/1964—44/1965.

Galway Traffic and Parking Bye-Laws, 1964—235/1964.

Monaghan Parking Bye-Laws, 1964—252/1964.

Mullingar (Co. Westmeath) Parking Bye-Laws, 1964—8/1965.

Navan (Co. Meath) Parking Bye-Laws, 1964—31/1965.

Road Vehicles (Index Marks) (Amendment) Regulations, 1965

—30/1965.

SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT

ASSOCIATION

ThePresident ofthe Society speaking at i o i stAnnual

General Meeting of Solicitors' Benevolent Associa

tion said—

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, it gives me great

pleasure and satisfaction to be able to address you

here to-day in my capacity as President of the

Incorporated Law Society. Many if not all of my

predecessors have expressed the view most earnestly

that the Solicitors' Benevolent Association is worthy

of the support of all the profession.

It seems also

that their efforts have not been wholly fruitful.

There are a number of solicitors in the country, I use

country in its fullest sense, who are not yet members.

The Association with its limited funds carries out a

charity the merit of which cannot be assessed in

words. It gives to the dependants of deceased

solicitors some iota of comfort in their old age

and destitution. The latter circumstance does not

arise from any neglect or default of the solicitor

but more from misfortune of various types—the

principal one being, I am sure, ill health of him-

or herself or of some immediate member of the

family.

I, from my own experience inside the last

few months, know what ill health can cost and I am

living in the day when one can insure against such

losses. The present donees of the annuities from the

Association did not have that opportunity and bills

must have weighed heavily upon them and would

weigh heavily on them because they still cannot be

insured. Former members of our profession or their

dependants who get the grants have no source of

income or other fund to which they can turn and

for this reason alone they deserve help. Another

cause for anxiety is the decrease in the value of

money. This means that every annuity being paid is

becoming of less value and greater hardships are

being endured by our less fortunate brethren.

know the Council of the Association have this very

much to the fore in their deliberations and have as

stated in the report done their best to deal with this

but they cannot act without funds. For this reason,

I would ask everyone present who is a member of

a Bar association to bring the matter up before his

association to try and ensure that everyone in it is

also a contributor to the Association. I had intended

before I read the report suggesting to the Council

that

they

should

seriously

consider

asking

the members for an increase in subscription.

£1

to-day is very little and if this were doubled I still

feel sure no members would lapse, to reduce the

mercenary element to its lowest level.

I would

point out that income tax is allowed by the Revenue

Commissioners on contributions.

I do not think

that we can hope for any great increase in voluntary

subscriptions either casual or annual.

This is a

matter for the directors and I would not presume to

interfere. They have the experience of years behind

them.

I was surprised to read that an annuity was

advertised

and only

attracted

two

applicants.

Whether this is a good or bad sign, I cannot say but

I do feel that somewhere throughout the country

there must be some people eligible who are not in

dire want but to whom an extra £50 per annum

would be a godsend in allowing them to get what

I might for want of a better word call " comparative

luxuries ". Do we not all want these in our later

years whether in a modest or an extravagant degree ?

As a corollary to this, might I mention that the

Association has for many years been pressing for