30 NOVEMBER 1945, Page 4

The diversity of Lord Horder's interests is a standing marvel.

In The Times of Tuesday I see him announced as about to address the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors on "House Abatement "—and since The Times is never guilty of mis- prints, I can only (like Brigham Young of the street-urchins who called him Daddy) assume that it is so. The subject, none the less, is a little baffling. Smoke Abatement, Disease Abatement, Noise Abatement, Specialists' Fees Abatement—one could have under- stood any of these. House Abatement is more difficult, even before so appropriate an audience. Can it, can it, be that there is a mis-