ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24764, 14 November 1941, Page 4

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

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

" Veritas."—You should communicate with the Minister of National Service. "Traveller."—A copy of your letter is being referred to the supervisor for a reply. "Argument," Hillgrove. George Barton never at any time owned the pacer Blue Mountain. (2) When Blue Mountain ran second to Indianapolis in the New Zealand Trotting Cup he was owned by Mrs Sweetapple and Mr M. J. Moodabe. "ftiqudrer."—Lord Swaythling (third baron), late of the Grenadier Guards, is a partner in the London banking firm of Messrs Samuel Montague and Co., Ltd. He was born on December 19, 1898, and is the second son of the second baron and Gladys Helen Rachel, daughter of the late Colonel A. E. Goldsmid. He was married in 1925 to Mary Violet, eldest daughter of the late Major Levy, and has two sons and one daughter. We have no information with respect to his political activities. •Broad Bay."—(1) It is generally claimed by experts that a chiming clock should be wound up twice • week. If you do this, you will Srobably find that the trouble will isappear, but, if not, it will be necessary to have the clock examined by a watchmaker. (2) A mixture of paris green and bran is very effective in killing slaters or wood lice. Half a pound of paris green should be thoroughly mixed with 141 b of bran and should be scattered thinly and evenly over the surface of the soil. Another method is to add sufficient water to moisten the mixture, but care must be taken not to add too much water, as this might cause particles to stick together in lumps. This mixture should be applied in the proportion <of half an ounce to an ounce per square yard. Particular care in trie use .of the mixture is necessary as it is very poisonous and cats, dogs, poultry and birds which eat any of it will quickly succumb.