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JUNE, 1941

FOR CIRCULATION AMONGST MEMBERS

be the Society's Accounts for year ending 30th April, 1941. The President nominated the following members to be scrutineers of Ballot for election of Council to be held on Friday, 21st November, next : Mr. H. G. Sweetman, Mr. Desmond J. Collins, Mr! Thomas Jackson, Mr. R. McC. Blakeney, and Mr. C. W. Grove- \Yhite. The President, addressing the Meeting, said:— Gentlemen, the first thing I wish to refer to is to members of our profession who have passed away since the last General Meeting. First of all every member of the Council feels with sincere and deep regret the loss occasioned by the death of their colleague, the late Mr. Daniel J. Reilly, who died on the 29th January, 1941. Mr. Reilly was a member of the Council from the year 1925 and was President of the Society for the year 1938-39. - Only those intimately associ– ated with him can fully realise what he did for the profession, of which he was an honoured and respected member. I think I have' somewhere referred to the strained relationship which existed between country solicitors and the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland when I was a youthful apprentice ; happily that relationship no longer exists we are now a happy family ; no one has done more to bring that position about than our deceased brother, Dan Reilly. In January we also lost an esteemed member of our profession, Mr. Claude J. Rutherfoord, who was for many years Law Agent to the Bank of Ireland, and in the appointed auditors of

HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING. A Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Society was held on Friday, the 16th May, 1941, in . the Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin, the President, Mr. Jasper Travers Wolfe, in the chair. The following members were also present : Messrs. \Ym. J. Norman, (Vice-President), Daniel O'Con- nell (Vice-President), H. St. J. Blake, W. G. Bradley, J. R. Brennan, E. H. Burne, E- F. Collins, J. J. Dundon, J-.J- Dunne, Roger Greene, VV. S. Hayes, W. S. Huggard, M. G. R. Lardner, H. P. Mayne, T. D. McLoughlin, Peter O'Connor, L. E. O'Dea, H. O'Donnell, S. O'Huadhaigh, P. F. O'Reilly, T. G. Quirke, G. A. Overend, C. G. Stapleton, A- G. Joyce, A, G. Quirke, J. T. Hamerton, J. E. Hamerton, S. Hayes, H. MacNeice, E. Emerson, E. H. Byrne, I. Howe, F. Burke, D. Greene, T. J. Greene, A. H. S. Orpen, R. G. Kenny, G. Grove-White, C. T. Blair- White, V. A. Walker, A. E. Walker, F. J. Lanigan, A. E. Ashton, H. E. Woulfe- Flanagan, D. B. Gilrnore, D. Moran, R. J. Dodd, D. D. MacDonald, W. H. Phayre, J. D. Guinan, F. Reilly, G. A. G. Byrne, G. Crowley, L. Jameson. The Secretary read the notice convening the meeting and the minutes of the Half- yearly General Meeting held on the 26th November, 1940, the latter of which were signed by the President. On the motion of Mr. Norman, Vice- President, seconded by Mr. D. O'Connell, Vice-President, the following resolution was unanimously adopted -" that Mr. A. E. Prentice, Mr. P. Glynn and Mr. E. J. O'Brien