The Gazette 1958-61

THE PRESIDENT AND VICE- PRESIDENTS

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

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,