LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 134, 8 June 1944, Page 3

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN

NEMO —Under certain circumstances the wages may be subsidised. Your daughter ca.ll obtain full Information from the nearest Manpower Office. L.S.—(l) In tile circumstances you there is no claim for (Jain ages. (2) The family allowance may be p ranted in the circumstances. You should make application. J.G. (Kingsland).—(l) The age benefit of the survivor will not be affected for the balance of tiie pension year. In the foUcaung year, however, the survivors' benefit will be reduced because of the excess cash in the bank oyer £500. (3) A properly drawn will should dispose of everything that the party owns. DOTMAC.—It will be unwise to buy a property or to build on It unless you can obtain a title to it. The fact that the vendor sill not bind himself to give a title for a year Indicates that he may never be In a position to give you a title. You would be wise to buy elsewhere. ANXIOUS. —The wife is entitled only to what she has bought out of her own money. WONDERING.—It is unlikely that your age benefit will be affeoted at all. DESPERATE.—The only way to bring the matter to a head is to sue for possession. The legal position Is not very clear, because the arrangement Is an unusual one. You win at least know where you are in a very short, time If you take proceedings. INQUISITOR. —You must allow the tenants to remain In possession until such time as you can obtain an order from a magistrate ordering them to give up possession. If the conduct of the tenants is so bad further nroceedlnsrs might succeed if you bring sufficient evidence to satisfy the magistrate that the ten.-nts are damaging the property and are a nuisance to their neighbours. ttjtt "Your sales are subject to sales tax. you can obtain full information from the Customs 1 Department as to method of payment.