The Gazette 1955-58

Leinster—Reginald Christopher E. Callan. The

J. Nolan.

Connaught—

profession to which we belong. He was a staunch and loyal Member of our Society, and had served on the Council from the year 1933 up to the date of his death; moreover, he was Vice-President of the Society in the year 1937-38, arid President in the year 1946-47. He was held in the highest esteem by the public and his professional brethren in the City and County of Galway, and was active and interested in many fields of sport and in par ticular in Tennis and in Rugby football. Mr. Peter O'Connor of Waterford was one of the oldest members of this Society. He achieved distinction in many fields, not least in athletics. He held the Olympic Record for the long jump from 1906 until 1922. He served on the Council from 1928 to 1948 and was a former Vice-President. In him we have lost a trusted and distinguisked colleague. Mr. P. V. C. Murtagh was a former member of the Council, and was one of the oldest and most respected members of the profession. It is my privilege and part of my duties as your President to summarise the work of the Council during the past 12 months, and in particular during the last six months, since our last meeting, and to a lesser extent to review and record some of my own activities during the period of my term of office as your President. Some of the matters about which I wish to speak to you have already been dealt with in the Council's Report and in my half-yearly address to you last May. During the past twelve months, as you will have observed from a perusal of the Annual Report, as happened in recent years, the Council has had an extremely busy year. During my term there were 14 meetings of the Council, 81 meetings of the Sub-Committees of the Council, and 4 meetings of the Disciplinary Committee. In this latter connection the work of the Disciplinary Committee has to all intents and purposes been suspended during the last 12 months, due to the fact that they are awaiting a decision of the Supreme Court in a particular case of which you are all aware, wherein the jurisdiction of the Com mittee and its powers are the subject in question. We can only hope that it will be given this term, so- that the Disciplinary functions will not much longer remain in the present unsatisfactory state. The Annual Report of the Council, which has been circulated to you, only in effect gives the bare outline of the work that has been done by the Council during the past twelve months, it does not really indicate to the ordinary member of the Society the tremendous amount of real work put into these meetings of the Council and meetings

foregoing were declared duly elected : The result of the ballot for the 31 ordinary members of the Council and the supplemental list was as follows :— Dermot P. Shaw, 540; Niall S. Gaffney, 512; Arthur Cox, 496; Thomas A. O'Reilly, 48 5 ; John Carrigan, 477; Charles J. Downing, 456; Patrick R. Boyd, 455 ; Desmond J. Collins, 454; Joseph P. Tyrrell, 454; Cornelius J. Daly, 449; John R. Halpin, 436 ; Francis J. Lanigan, 432 ; William J. V. Comerford, 431 ; John J. Nash, 425 ; Scan O'hUadhaigh, 423 ; Francis X. Burke, 418 ; Peter E. O'Connell, 417 ; George A. Nolan, 405 ; John J. Shiel, 404 ; Ralph J. Walker, 391 ; Terence de Vere White, 391 ; Robert McD. Taylor, 390; George G. Overend, 389; Patrick O'Donnell, 375 ; Desmond J. Mayne, 371 ; James R. Quirke, 361; Patrick Noonan, 350; William Dillon- Leetch, 341 ; John Maher, 338 ; James J. O'Con- nor, 331 ; Eunan McCarron, 327. Supplemental List: Francis J. Gearty, 318; Christopher Gore-Grimes, 301 ; Benedict J. Daly, 252; The President declared the foregoing members of the Society duly elected to the Council and supplemental list in accordance with the scrutineers report. The following candidates received the number of votes placed after their names : Gerard M. Doyle, 216 ; Charles Hyland, 216 ; Raymond V. H. Downey, 108. 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 regret the death of tlie following members : William Thornhill, Cork ; Hugh C. F. O'Doherty, Londonderry and Buncrana; Charles M. Russell, Dundalk; T. Osborne Davis, Bray; Henry St. J. Blake, Galway ; Arthur T. Ellis, Dublin ; Joseph C. Guihan, Tralee; Michael Killeen, Ennis; Reuben J. Dodd, Dublin; Thomas Healy, Skib- bereen; Francis J. McKenna, Co. Registrar, Cavan; Peter O'Connor, Waterford; Patrick V. C. Murtagh, Athlone. To their relatives and friends, on behalf of myself and the members of the Council and the general body of the profession I extend our sincere sympathy. 1 must particularly refer to the loss we on the Council in particular have suffered by the sudden and untimely death of Henry St. J. Blake, Solicitor, of Galway; Harry, as he was known to us all, was in every sense of the word an ornament to the