YOUNG BARONET

SELLS HALF HIS ESTATE.

TO PAY TAXES

Tall, young—He is only 24 years of age, although he looks much, older— and debonair, Sir Graeme Duncan Power Smclair-Lockhart, Bart., a, New Zealander by birth, soon found, upon «oming into the title of his late father, \ Sir Robert Duncan Sinclair-Lockhart, -that even wealth has its burdens in the form of death duties and taxation. He arrived in Sydney recently by the Morea on his way to New Zealand, where his mother and brothers reside. "After toying with a picturesque Tam-o-Shanter, the young baronet showed -to the interviewer the handsome Order -of Nova Scotia, which was instituted rin the reign of King James in about 1636, and of which he claims to be, to--day, one of the three remaining holders an the British Empire. With the same ;pride he afforded the interviewer a .glance at what he described as the original ribbon of the Order, and at a photograph of the stately home to which lie has succeeded, along with 6500 acres of agricultural land. But even all these things nave not made his position one of unalloyed "happiness. It was not until he succeeded to the title of his late father— tbe Higblaml baronetcy, as head practically, of tlie Sinclair of Caithness *lan. and the lowland Lockhart estate, on the Clyde—that he came to under-

thing, he says, is swallowed up in death duties and taxation, as every landed Scotsman is well aware. Again, to get the best out of the land, it was ■ stand properly the responsibilities j I nowadays of British landowners. Every- * necessary for one personally to super- . vise a big estate, and for that reasons he was going back to Scotland so'^g j. day—he did not know precisely v ynen —although he regretted he way' no t j settling down permanently 'on *„£& gjde i of the world. In order to cte,a r off the ! heavy death duties with w.frich \ e , i s faced, the young baronet : A selling half .. his Scottish, estate. "Things, however, • will be all right in a or two," he i says optimistically. | i Sir Graeme Sinclair-Lockhart's father, who died in New Zealand a,t ; about the time, of the influenza epi- j demio outbreak, was associated with j the Ranking, business, and upon sue- ' <oeeding through his uncle to the title j which is now held by the young . baronet^ he became interested in the' j ' land. His death occurred in Auckland. '• Sir Graeme Sinclair-Lockhart, who was j on a station on-the east coast of New Zealand when the war broke out, joined -up with the 11th squadron of the New Zealand Rifles, and served with that regiment for some time, and, invalided after the Gaza battle, he again associated himself with station interests. Later, upon his father's death,, he proceeded to Scotland to look after I the estates to which he had succeeded, and also a coal pit, which has been on lease. He proposes to devote himself to agricultural pursuits in New Zealand. , In order to make the trip, the young baronet has had to obtain leave from the Scottish-Horse, in which he holds the rank of lieutenant, having been i recommended for a commission by the Duke of Athol. In view of Sir Graeme Sinclair-Lock-hart's immediate interest in, coal- ; mining, the conversation with him | turned to the: big industrial trouble j which is now facing England. He does ' not appear to be at all enamoured of j the outlook industrially in England. By way of illustrating the difficulties of coal production, he said the miners would stop work i even for a football match. "The miners," he said, "think nothing of going to the races in taxis, i and then, when they cease work for a week or two, they wonder why they are starving." He speaks also of the acuteness of the unemployed problem'at Home, and says that in Glasgow alone there must . be about 30,000 men ou,t of work. The closing down of shipyards in Scotland, he says, is a factor contributing largely to a position which- appears to be far from bright.—Sydney Morning Herald.