ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22356, 1 September 1934, Page 14

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

" Query.”—ln our article ” elghtpence ” should have read “ eighteenpcnce.” Respecting pensions, the correct amount was stated in this column in our issue of Thursday. ’’ Inquisitive.”—Letters require the name and, address of the writer. " Subscriber,” Clinton.—The Dunedin (New Zealand) Distillery Company censed operations In 1875. "Interested,” Otekaike. —(1) The approximate costs of the transfer would be £l3 4s 6d. (2) The total costa would be £23 18s fid. " Curious." Palmerston.—The phrase " The Arches of the Years," adapted as a title of hooks by Halllday Sutherland and Ethel Bolleau, Is from ” The Hound of Heaven,” by Francis Thompson. It occurs in the opening verse I fled Him. down Iho nights and down Hie days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years: I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and In the midst of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter Up vlstacd hopes, I sped; ’ And shot, precipitately, Adovvn Titanic glooms of chasmed fears. And those strong Feet that followed after.