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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 May 1928, Page 9

Previous to the business of the annual meeting of the Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Dental Association last evening, the delegates sat down to a daintily served dinner at the Central Hotel.* The late Charles Lewis, a. farmer of Hawke’s Bay, was survived by bis widow, four daughters and three sons, each of whom received £SOOO during his lifetime. He left an estate valued at £14,000, but no part of it was left to one of the sons, Brian Llansanwyr Lewis, who, having lost his 'CSOOO on a farming venture, was without means. Brian made application before (Mir. Justice Adams at Christchurch yesterday, under the Family Protection Act. The beneficiaries under the will, who with the executors were the defendants, were in agreement that ho should receive £4OOO from the estate. The judge said that though the parties might be agreed upon “a fair thing,” the Court could not concern itself with a fair thing, which would mean, in effect, making a new will. His Honor pointed out that the grandchildren of the testator should have been represented. The hearing of the applications as before the Court did not come under the Family Protection Act, and he could not make an order. He would consider the case when it was properly before the Court.