ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24633, 14 June 1941, Page 8

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Questions will not be answered unless accompanied - by . the name and address of correspondents. “The Pip.’*—We have given all available space to new correspondents and r closed the discussion. John Gilpin—Hardly relevant to the points under discussion. We are endeavouring to conserve space. O. B—We regret we have been unable to ascertain how Emerson street. Concord. got its name or by whom it was named. Possibly some reader may be able to assist. ■ v . "Otakou.”—A woman who has reached the age of 60, and whose husband s total income amounts to £4 a week or over, is not entitled- to the social security age benefit. ~ J. E. MacManus.—The chairman of the Finance Committee of the City Council. to whom your letter was referred states that the decision of the council in the matter by the proposed loan was governed by the Loans Board, and that the council’s hands were tied in the matter. , •* Interested,”.-Oamaru.—(l) The onus is on a man who, subsequent to his enrolment, has become the father of a child, to notify /the National Service Registrar before he is called up in the ballot, and his name will then be automatically transferred to a later ballot (2) If another child is born before the father Is called up the same procedure must be followed. (3) Legally adopted children are treated as if they were the foster parents’ own children.