ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25214, 1 May 1943, Page 4

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

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

“ inquirer.”—Death duties on an estate of £24,000, divided equally among three children would amount to app^. 03 £6200 at the existing rates. War bonds are purchaseable that may -be applied to the payment of death duties. " No Humbug,” Oamaru. —The statement by Mr Holland, published in yesterdays issue, includes the questions asked by you. "Wants to Know.”—We have no record of a conviction for manslaughter against any person of the name mentioned, but a person of the same surname was convicted in February, 1930, on a charge of negligent driving causing death. •• Church.”—There is no provision in the rationing regulations that would enable a permit to be issued for the purchase free of coupons, of materials to be made’ into garments for a church sale. If members of the organisation made their own coupons available for the purchase of such material, the garments could then be sold free of coupons. “Paddy,” Otago.—(l) A reservist who is Grade I and is waiting to be called into a military camp may apply for a transfer to the ground staff of the Air Force. An application form may be obtained from the office of the Air Department in Dunedin. It could not be regarded as certain that your work would be that of a lorry driver, but an effort is made to give men duties for which their qualifications fit them. The pay of a married man with two children is now the same in. the Air Force as in the army. (2) Men in the Air Force receive 18 days’ leave each year, but normally not more than seven days are given at one time. (3) There is no limit bn the number of sheep which may be driven on a highway, nor is there a limit bn the number of dogs to be used by a drover.