ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25562, 15 June 1944, Page 4

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Questions will not be answered . unless accompanied by the name and address c-f correspondents.

“ Incubator.” Communicate with Reilly’s Central Produce Mart, Ltd., Moray place. Dunedin. C. M. H.—The fish known as hapuka « rha sam> as the groper caught in the South. " Contractor,” Lovell’s Flat.—Ploughing work done by contract is not governed by any award. The price charged Is a matter for arrangement between employer and contractor. "No Scholar,” Waikouaiti.—lt is not possible on the meagre information supplied to give the approximate cost of a building such as that mentioned by you. Ycu should inquire from some of the building firms or call for tenders for the work.

“M. P.” —Application for a permit to leave New Zealand for Australia should be made to the passport officer, care of the Registrar-general’s Department, Customhouse square. The application is then forwarded to the office of the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, which decides it on its merits. “ Interested,” Tomahawk.—County rates are not spent on roads according to the amount of rates collected from the properties adjoining such roads. Under the riding system tire expenditure on' the roads is a charge on the riding concerned, jand. it is spent where it is considered’that work is most urgently required. Under the system in which ridings have been abc-lished the expenditure of money on roads is governed by the council’s view of the urgency of the work.

R. C., Cromwell—(l) Tire German invasion of Denmark and Norway was commenced on April 9, 1940, and of Holland and Belgium on May 10, 1940. (2) I Italv declared war on France on June 10, 1940. (3) The armistice between France and Germany commenced on 12. 1940. (4) The last' of the Italians were cleared from Abyssinia on April 5, 1941. (5) The New Zealand Division landed In Greece on April 8, 1941. (6) Germany invaded Russia on June 22, 1941. (7) Herr Hess landed in Scotland on May 10, 1941.' (8) There is no town called Budapest in China. “ Curious." Hampden.—Under the Impounding Act, 1908. pigs trespassing on a neighbour’s property may be destroyed. Clause 14, cf the Act says that the occupier of any fenced or unfenced land trespassed on may recover trespass rates amounting in the case of unfenced land to Is for each pig, and in the case of fenced land to 3s for each pig, and if anv pigs, the property of the same owner, trespass on such land within the space of three months after the first trespass, such occupier may recover from the owner thereof in respect of every separate time thev so trespass double the rate previously charged. The occupier of any fenced land in artificial grass or under cultivation may destroy any pigs found trespassing on such land, and in that case must, within 24 hours, send in writing a description of each animal so dc--stroyed to the owner, or if the ownership is unknown to tire nearest police station. If the carcass of any such animal is not claimed within 48 hours after being destroyed. the occupier of the land must bury it. and if he makes default in so doing he renders himself liable to 3 fine not" exceeding £lO. The Act is administered by the local authority in the district, and the sections relating to the destruction of pigs and tire disposal of the carcasses may. by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the local authority, be declared to be not in operation in the district within which the local authority has jurisdiction. You should therefore, befor- taking steps to deal with the trouble, consult the local authority concerned. The case would probably be met if th“ occupier of the land impounded the trespassing animals, the owner of which would have to pay the costs of any damage.