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Otago Witness, Issue 3993, 23 September 1930, Page 45

Air Justice Kennedy has granted probate in the estates of the following deceased persons:—Edward Moar of Port Chalmers (Messrs J. Wilkinson and lte = Catherine Waugh, of Dunedin L - Moore) ’ John Edward Jone* of Brighton (Messrs J. Wilkinson and Rolfe); Ann Rhodes, of Dunedin (Mr A Harriet Bimick, of Oamaru (Mr W. G. Grave); Duncan M'Donald of Palmerston (Mr E. L. A. Rolfe); James John (xaliagher, of Oamaru (Air P. C. Hjorring), and Rosina Eleanor Page" of Dunedin (Air J. B. Nichol). Letters of administration have been granted in the estates of John Sutherland Sinclair of Waitahuna (Air D. Finlayson) and William Rattray, of Lawrence (Air S. Fletcher).

The Phormium Committee of the Council of Scientific aud Industrial Research has recently been conducting valuable tests concerning New Zealand flax and has ascertained that yellow-leaf disease can be attacked by the application of manures. The Bureau of Standards has manufactured from New Zealand Phormium fibre some samples of paper showing distinctly good qualities.

The United States single-deck Eleanor Bolling (ex Chelsea, ex Kilmarnock), 598 tons gross, 246 tons net, carrying about 770 tons deadweight, built and engined by Smith’s Dock Company, Aliddlesbrough, in 1919, with engines 16in, 26in, and 44in,’ by 26in stroke, owned by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and at present lying in the Tebo Yacht Basin of the Todd Shipyards Corporation undergoing minor repairs and overhauling, has. .it is reported (says “Fairplay”), been sold to MarineAgencies, of St. Johns, Newfoundland, for about 18,000 dollars. It is expected that she will be engaged in the seal fisheries off the Labrador coast. This vessel, when purchased for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in August, 1928, realised about 34,000 dollars.