The Gazette 1967/71

7. Members interested in registering for the conference should apply to the Society for further information with registration and hotel reservation forms. No money can be accepted until after the registration forms have been issued. ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING An ordinary general meeting of the Society was held in the Library, Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin 7, on 23rd November, 1967. The President took the chair at 2.30 p.m. The notice convening the meeting was by per mission taken as read. The Secretary read the minutes of the ordinary general meeting held on 20th May 1967 which were confirmed and signed by the Chairman. The Secretary read the report of the scrutineers on the ballot for the Council for the year 1967/68. The President declared the result of the ballot in accordance with the scrutineers report as fol lows: — Provincial delegates returned unopposed: — Ulster: John C. O'Carroll. Munster: Thomas E. O'Donnell. Leinster: Christopher Hogan. Connaught: Francis J. Armstrong. Ordinary Members: The following received the number of votes placed after their names: — P. A. O'Donnell 597; P. C. Moore 589; Patrick Noonan 581; Eunan McCarron 577; Desmond J. Collins 568; Bruce St. J. Blake 560; Augustus Cul- len 554; Robert McD. Taylor 553; John Carrigan 548; Francis J. Lanigan 543; Ralph J. Walker 531; Daniel J. O'Connor 526; John J. Nash 525; John Maher 523; Thomas Jackson (jnr.) 509; William A. Osborne 505; Joseph L. Dundon 505; Gerald Hickey 497; George A. Nolan 477; Peter E. O'Connell 477; Norman T. J. Spendlove 476; Peter D. M. Prentice 468; Gerald Y. Goldberg 455; James R. C. Green 448; Walter Beautty 446; James W. O'Donovan 445; Desmon Moran 441; Joseph P. Black 438; Brendan A. McGrath 433; Thomas J. Fitzpatrick 431; Thomas V. O'Connor 424. The scrutineers returned the foregoing as duly elected members of the Council for the year 1967/8. The following candidates also received the number of votes placed after their names: — George .; G. Overend 417; Thomas H. Bacon 417;

William A. Young 400; Timothy J. C. O'Keeffe 377. On the proposal of Gerard M. Doyle, seconded by Ralph J. Walker the audited accounts and balance sheets for the year ended 30th April 1967 circulated with the agenda were adopted. The President signed the accounts. On the proposal of Mr. P. C. Moore, seconded by Mr. John Carrigan, Messrs. Kevans & Sons were reappointed auditors. The President moving the adoption of the re port of the Council said— Ladies and Gentlemen The year of office of the outgoing Council has been one in which the Society have been faced with vital issues affecting the future of the pro fession and indeed of our legal system. In open ing my remarks I would like to pay tribute to the devoted service of my colleagues on the Council, not alone in the work of the Council meetings but on the various committees of the Council, de putation and preparatory work, much of which must be done in their spare time and which does not appear either on the ballot paper which you receive or in the report of the Council which ac companies the notice for this meeting. In paying this tribute I should like to mention particularly the outgoing members of the Council as a col league over a period of years, I can bear witness to the ability and energy with w'hich they dis charged their duties and I feel that I am only expressing the unanimous wish of this meeting in thanking them most sincerely for their services to the profession. During the past twelve months the following members of the profession have passed away and I would like to take this opportunity of expressing to their families and relatives our sin cere sympathy. Mr. Francis A. Gibney, Dublin. Mr. J. A. Allan Osborne, Co. Donegal, Mr. Bernard McDermot, Ballybofey, Mr. Dermot McDowell, Dublin, Mrs. Beatrice Elyan, Cork, Mr. Michael J. Dunne, Dublin, Mr. Aubrey R. Walker, Dublin, Dr. Joseph Jackson Wolfe, formerly of Skibbereen, Mr. James Roger's Tullamore, Mr. Michael J. Alien, Galway, Mr. Thomas R. Robinson, Dublin, Dr. John J. Horgan, Cork, Mr. John F. Kealy, Co. Louth, District Justice Cahill, Gaway, John R. Gibney, Dublin, Seamus Kerr, Dublin, Joha S. O'Connor, Dublin, William Trant-McCarrhy, Dublin, Edmond A. Rice, Cork,. Mr.. James H. Gorman, Dublin. . . 'J '•'.; .;,..' ;M 63