The Gazette 1949-1952

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 ; t 6 . 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 48