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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4578, 22 June 1923, Page 4

Once again the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” carries off the palm for superlative illustrations, this week’s issue showing an abundance of pictures dealing with all manner of sport and pastimes, locallf and overseas. The centre pages are devoted to a miscellany of topical happenings in England and abroad, a particular series showing the unforgetable cup scenes at the Soccer cup trial at Wimbly Stadium,, when 1000 casualties were recorded.. Among the local features are New Zealand Gun Club’s championship pigeon shooting match, members of the Gonvilie (Wanganui) Men’s and Ladies’ Swimming Club, the Auckland University Students’ Carnival. Coupons in connection with the £2OO 66 Moves Puzzle competition anso appear. in the issue.

Cases are known in which fathers, by their wills, have left unfilial sons a shilling or some other small sum (says the ‘‘Taranaki Daily News”). Interesting observations on such actio.ns were made by Mr Justice Reed in giving written judgment; in a case which came before the Supreme Court at New Plymouth recently, in which a son applied for an alteration in respect of his share of his father's: estate. His Honour, inter alia, states : “The £lO left to the plaintiff is, on the face of it, intended as a slight. If the plairtfiff, by his treatment of the testator, or by his character .

has warranted this treatment, the Court will not interfere, for, indeed, it may well be that there should still remain in the hands of the aged a means by which they can reward those of their children that are kindly and considerate and punish the unfilial. But old people sometimes take strange fancies and unjustifiable antipathies, and may do, as many have done, a moral injustice in the>r wills to those who have a moral claim upon their bounty. Jt is to repair such injustice that the statute was passed.”