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Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 2

Mr Justice Kennedy has granted pro/ate of the estates of Frederick Driver, sen., farmer, Purakanui; Archibald Sam Harbott, confectioner, Dunedin; Jane Mauley, widow, Dunedin; Gabriel Napier Forrester Findlater, labourer, Dunedin; Hannah May Smith, widow, Dunedin; James Joseph O'Kane, dentist, Alexandra; Thomas Johnston, soldier, Five Forks; Charles Vanstone, farmer, Waitahuna; Hugh Clark, retired , farmer, Portobello; Frederick William Atchley, retired carter, Dunedin; and Archibald Henderson Davy Sharp, tailor, Dunedin. Letters of administration have been granted in the estates of Donald McMillan Reid, retired moulder, Tomahawk; and Jessie Brydon Lobb, married woman, Brighton.

A conference of local bodies and organisations and members of Parliament, convened by the Mayor (Mr A. H. Allen), will be held in the Council Chamber to-morrow to discuss three important subjects. These are the celebration of the centenary of Otago in 1948, the provision of an airport for the province, and the development of irrigation in Central Otago. It is expected that there will be an attendance of over 50 delegates. Flags were flown half-mast on public buildings and private residences as a mark of respect to the memory of Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord, whose burial took place to-day in England. During boring operations at a woll in Sturges Park, Otahuhu, a strange find of some miro tree seeds was made. After passing through a depth of peat and a 12ft layer of clay a few handfuls of the seeds were brought to the surface from a depth of about 35ft. Just how many years, thousands perhaps, these may have been buried none can say, but the find was a most interesting one. ■

Many of the young women now " tickling typewriters " in the cities would be far better employed learning mothercraft audi other important subjects in country, homes, said Professor Hudson, director of Lincoln College, in an address to the ipost-war reconstruction conference in Christchurch, reports the ' Star-Sun.' "So long as we prefer a baby car to a baby boy or girl," he said, "we are heading for race annihilation." It was essential, in his opinion, that some of the man power in commercial life in New Zealand to-day should be diverted to the rural communities.

Fine records of family service in the war are not unusual, but few have so far reached that of a Lower Mutt family, as it was recorded before the No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board. A single man, aged 32, on furlough, who before the war was a painter employed by tlie P. and T. Department, appealed against further service on the ground of undue hardship to his mother. It was stated that the appellant was one of six sons, all of whom, with the exception of one in the Air Force, who expected to go overseas shortly, and one aged 21, who was awaiting entry to the Navy, had seen active service. The appellant was back from the Middle Hast, one son was killed ..in Greece, one had served in the islands, and had been discharged invalided, and one was a prisoner of war. The mother said that it had been her aim that all her sons should take their part in the war. She was congratulated, by the chairman (Mr E. P. Hay) on a family record of which she could well be proud.

Though war-time conditions naturally prevent the arranging of international Esperanto congresses, several national conferences have been held recently. Reports of Esperanto congresses in the Argentine, Brazil, Great Britain, Egypt, Palestine, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland have reached members of the Karori Esperanto Society During a recent congress of the Esperanto League of Brazil, the president said that the application of the league and of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics requesting that Esperanto be included' in the list of censored languages had been approved by the Brazilian Director of Post and Telegraphs.

The staff of the Public Trust were in charge of the Dugout on Friday, when £275 was raised for the All Purposes Patriotic Fund. As may be inferred from the result, there ivni an excellent stock of goods of all kinds. A number of money donations In iped to swell the fund.