ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23365, 3 December 1937, Page 8

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Questions will not be answered unless accompanied by the name and address of correspondents. “Farmer,” Milton.—The facts outlined in your query appear to be incomplete, but in any case it is advisable that you should obtain a legal opinion on the subject. " Inquirer.”—On April 28. 1893, Mr Oliver Mawhinney, at that time a member of the staff of a Dunedin evening paper, entered a cage of lions in the course of a performance by Flllis’s circus. “H. D. 1.,” Dunedin.—There is no official representative of South Africa in New Zealand, but the Information which you desire could probably be obtained from the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in South Africa, Mr H. Middlebrook, 3 Natal Bank Buildings, Durban. "Subscriber," Oamaru.—Ted Morgan won the Olympic Welter-weight Championship at Amsterdam in 1928. This is generally regarded as an amateur world championship. (2) The limit of income allowed a married couple is £169 per annum. This sum includes the pensions (if any) of both parties. Thus, if the wife were receiving the full old age pension of £SB 10s, her husband could have other income amounting to £llO 10s before her pension would be affected. This amount would be reduced to £52 if the husband were also receiving the full pension. "Benmore,” Blenheim.—(l) The Reserve: Bank is State owned and operated, and the Government also appoints a majority of the directors of the Bank of New Zealand. The other banks, however, operate independently of Government control. They are the National Bank of New Zealand, the Bank of New South Wales, the Commercial Bank of Australia, the Union Bank of Australia, and the Bank of Australasia. (2) After the Labour Government' went out of power in New South Wales depositors in the State Savings Bank received 20s in the £l. At this time the State bank had been taken over by the savings bank department of the Commonwealth Bank. M. M., Dunedin. —(1) Glendhu Bay is Crown land held under pastoral licence. It is within the boundaries of the Otago mining district and is a proclaimed goldfield. (2) Regulation 121 made under the Mining Act states that, in addition to the other privileges conferred by the regulations on the holder of a miner’s right, he shall, as such holder, and without application to the warden, be entitled personally to occupy as tent or footground, for his residence, an area not exceeding 24 feet frontage by 48 feet depth on any unoccupied Crown land open for mining, which has not been set apart for business or residence olteg.