ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24696, 27 August 1941, Page 6

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Questions will not be answered unless accompanied by the name and address of correspondents.

“ Query.”—The charge that may be made for collecting a debt or attempting to do so would depend oh the arrangement between the debt collector and the creditor. “Taxed.”—lt is necessary for a doctor to enter into a contract under which his services are available to the patient; The Emergency Re- . gulations contain the provision. “C. M. L.”—The reference in the Otago Daily Times on August 21 to the famous dinner Tweed is the same as that which appeared in the Southland News a day or two earlier. “Curious,” Kaikorai—Members of the Education Board who visit patients recently discharged from hospital may do so for personal reasons but ” not as representatives of the board. “P, E.,” Lawrence. —Particulars with respect to your offer of a small farm for the rehabilitation of a returned soldier, should be sent to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Otago, Chief Post Office, Dunedin. •Inquirer,” Mataura—The British railway system is owned and controlled by private companies which do not receive any subsidy from the British Government. On January 1, 1923, the majority of the snftller companies were merged Into one or other of the four major companies—the London Midland and Scottish, the London and North-Eastern, the Great Western, and the Southern. ••M. R. L. 5.,” Balclutha. —(a) The Fencing Act, 1908, provides that ,no person shall plant trees on or alongside any boundary line or fence without the consent in writing of the owner of the adjoining property. Apart from this no general statement can be given without a detailed knowledge of the facts. We suggest you consult a solicitor, (b) So long as no default is made the mortgagee has no power to call in the money before due date and the mortgagor, unless he has a right under the mortgage, can only insist on repaying the money provided he pays interest to the end of the term. The exercise of the' mortgagee’s ' powers is, under the Mortgagees Extension Emergency Regulations. 1940. subject to the consent of the court, which has power to grant or refuse the mortgagee leave to call , up the money, but has no power to reduce the principal.