ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25298, 7 August 1943, Page 4

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Questions will not be answered > unless accompanied by the name and address of correspondents.-- “ Navy.”—There is no.organisation that a youth may join whft waiting to be called up for the ; navy. ■ . - " Truth.”—We think it would be undesirable to permit the intervention of others in the discussion between "Bank Clerk” and the Social Credit Educational Association. . J. M. • W., Queenstown.—ln order to make an application for a mufti allowance you should pbtain a form , from the local Post- Office and. after it has been filled in, it should be posted to Base Records, Army Headquarters, Wellington. If your last payment was received when you were in a South Island camp your pay book should be posted to the Pay Office Army Department. Christchurch, but if the last payment was made to you tvhen you were Serving overseas your pav book should be sent to Base Records, Army: Headquarters; Wellington. "Mother of Five.” Oamaru.—(l) You should place the matter in.the hand* of the police, or else consult a solicitor. ' (2) If a man’s gross wages do not exceed. £s* 5s per week (that is. if his net wiges do not exceed £4 11s lOd) he is entitled to the full family benefit of 7s 6d a week for each child. The benefit is not affected by the man’s earnings while he was in the army. It is assumed, for the purpose of this answer, that the family ha* no income other than wages, as such in. come is taken into account in fixing thl amount of the benefit.