ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25301, 11 August 1943, Page 2

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Questions will not be answered unless accompanied by the name and address of correspondents. * " Inquirer,” Balclutha.—The information will be published as soon as it is available. “ Bunny,” Middlemarch.—You are entitled to a mufti allowance for the nine months during which you were in camp. “ Chick,” Outram.—A cockerel should be mated with a pen of hens for three weeks in order to be certain that the eggs are fertile. “ E. C„” Fairlie.—We have no record of the publication of the letter mentioned by you, but if you will supply us with the approximate date of its insertion we shall endeavour to furnish the information desired by you. “ Once Again,” Central Otago.-rlf the girl is employed as a land girl she must, according to-the regulations, be paid the award rate irrespective of the fact .that she may be working for her ’own father. " Clutha.”—Mr Grantham, not Mr Grant, as stated by you, is chairman of the Industrial Man-power Appeal Committee which sits from time to time at Invercargill. Before being appointed to this position, he was a railway signalman in the Invercargill district. “X. Y. Z.”—A girl may not leave her work in an essential industry without the consent of the man-power officer. If his consent is refused, she has the right to appeal to the Industrial Man-power Appeal Committee.