Answers to Correspondents

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26463, 17 May 1947, Page 6

Answers to Correspondents

Inquiries should be addressed to the Editor, and the envelope inscribed in the . upper left-hand corner, “ATC.”

"Disturbed."—Your best would be to go to the Psychiatrist Department at the Public Hospital. " Science.”—A blood test could never prove the paternity of a child. All that It could prove was that any particular man could not be the father. " Worker.” —Piecework is forbidden work under the coal yard employees’ award, so the question whether you are entitled also to holiday allowance need not be considered. “ Sponge.” Timaru.—You cannot melt -rubber. Pure or raw rubber can be made into a solution by dissolving it in benzoline, but the manufactured article cannot be so treated. ” Subscriber.” Oamaru.—Your question is not put very clearly. If a man is appointed chairman of a meeting it would be recognised that he has a deliberative and a casting vote. If, on the other hand, it was agreed before his appointment that he was not to have a casting vote he would not be in order in exercising such a vote. , ... .. " Safe Bet.”—A married man with three children can earn £450 per year without paving income tax, provided his wife does not earn over £SO per year. " Cowbells,” Taieri.—lf a cow is left to wander about a road it runs a risk of being impounded We have never heard before of a custom, or law, in vogue in the time of King Charles under which a dairy cow had the right of way on a highway, and if it were injured while on the highway compensation would have to be paid for such injury. “ Curious.”— On the position as stated you will not be required to pay any inCO, ’ I Grateful.”—The first talking picture shown in Oamaru was ” The Desert Song, ’ on February 10. 1930.