ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26199, 9 July 1946, Page 4

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

“ curious," Waimate.—Joe Louis retained his heavyweight boxing championship title when he defeated Tommy Farr on points. That was the only occasion on which these two boxers have mei. " Rectify?" Central Otago.-The answer given to your previous question was quite correct You should now take immediate steps to Place the full facts of your case before the department concerned " Curious,” South Oamaru.—No anrouncement has yet been made as to when the report of the Licensing Commission will be submitted to Parliament or when it will be released for publication. C. H. D., Oamaru.—The proprietor ol a boarding house is within his legal rights in increasing his tariff to boarders and to ask those who refuse to pay the increase to find accommodation elsewhere R. F. Oamaru. —The 59 bushels of wheat shipped from New Zealand in Marcn, 1946, can hardly be classed under the heading of exports. The wheat was probably sent abroad for experimental purP< "Argument." Dunback.—A person wno shoots on another person’s property without permission to do so is liable to pi ose- * cution. It is not necessary for the owner of the property to erect warning notices and a person found trespassing must go off the procerty when ordered to do so bv anyone In authority. "Inquirer,” Waikaka.—You do not supply sufficient Information with respect to the symptoms of the disease affecting your fowls, the number of fowls kept, the housing conditions, etc., to enable a definite answer to be given to your question. Make siffe that your fowlhouse i 3 free from damp and has plenty of dry straw. Give the fowls a tonic made by mixing in one gallon of water loz of sulDhnte of iron, loz of Epsom salts and 60 - drops of sulphuric acid. A pamphlet entitled “ Backyard Poultry-keeping, and oilier bulletins containing information of great value to the amateur poultrykeeper, may be obtained on application to the Department of Agriculture, Dunedin.