ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26227, 10 August 1946, Page 6

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

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

" Thoughtful Nationalist.”—No object can be served by continuing this discussion. Waiting.” Waitahuna.—The name of tlie shrub ' from which the leaves forwarded come is exochordia grandiflora (pearl bush). This is not dangerous to stock, nor are any of the other bushes named by you. " Taxes,” Cromwell.—(l) The reduction in the national and social security tax from 2s 6d in the £1 to 2s has operated from May 13 of this year. (2) A person in receipt of £2OO a year or over must render a return of his income to the Land and Income Tax Department. He is allowed £2OO personal exemption and deductions are made for such items as life Insurance premiums, etc. • " Family Benefit.” Dunedin.—A mother, after providing for the immediate needs of her children is within her legal rights in banking in her own name any money left over from the family benefit, as she may wish to accumulate a balance to be spent later on clothing and other necessaries required for the children. The whole of the benefit Is. of course. Intended for use In providing for the children. " Inquirer.” Cromwell.—(l) Definite advice on how to plant the young cabbage tree cannot be given without a close examination of the root of the half-grown tree from which the young one appears to be growing. Scrape the soil away from the root, and if the young tree is a sprout of the parent one, a chip will have ,to be cut from the latter with an axe and replanted. If there is any root formation the growth will be assisted. On the other hand the young tree may consist of a sucker and in that event the chord separating the sucker from the parent tree can easily be cut with a spade and the sucker then replanted. (2) Bitumestic paint, which can be purchased from leading oil and colour merchants, is usually used for coating the ■inside of a tank such as that mentioned Sy you-