The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday March 2 1942

Chief among them has been the smallness if the resources of the ordinary man; but coupled with that has been a lurking hope horn perhaps of a sense of helplessness that the tide of war will pass India by and take a different direction ; and proccupation with the daily work has furnished a suffcient excuse to the benumbed mind for not making any preparation to meet the coming danger. [...] The erection of baffle walls round the High Court building and the removal of glass from the dotes and 59lr THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] So far as the public and the members of the profession are concerned the High Court is served by a single lift which in times of emergency will be practically useless for bringing down the people from the second floor. [...] Payment of Government revenue and borrowing money for maintenance are 1 a gtimate purposes for which a Hindu widow is entitled to alienate the husband's estate prvided the maintenance and the revenue could not be met out of the income of the estate or but of the available funds of the estate. [...] or (b) that he made proper and band fide( inquiry as to the existence of the necessity and did all that was reasonable to satisfy himself as to the existencof the necessity.