Answers to Correspondents

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26471, 27 May 1947, Page 4

Answers to Correspondents

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

“ Inflation." —Declined. Curious.”-The person concerned has been apprised of your wish .and may »et in touch with you. , , = “ Inquirer," Oamaru.—On the facts as stated bv you, there could be no objection to the person mentioned acting as referee. Presumably he was appointed by the Referees’ Association. “ Neon ” Lawrence. —You should place the whole of the facts before the’ Social Security Department, as it would appear from the statement supplied by you that vou may be entitled to receive the a fa e benefit, which provides for the payment of £2 a week in the case of a single man or £4 a week for a man and ms wife if the man is 60 years of age or over. A single man may have £SOO in the bank and a man and his wife ma/ have between them £IOOO, and they may also own their own house. An additional £1 a week income may be received without suffering any 6 reduction in the benefit. No two benefits can be received, hence if the age benefit were granted the universal superannuation payments would cease “Wager,” Roxburgh.—ln the eaily sixties the Otago Provincial Government had the volume of the Molyneux River carefully measured at a time when its waters were low, and the record shows that 1,690,401 cubic feet of water per minute were discharged into the sea. The on.y two rivers discharging a greater volume of water per cubic feet, per minute are. the Irrawaddv (4.500.000) and the Rhine (3,000.000). These figures, of course do not apply to the actual size, measured by area, of the world’s principal livens, of which the Amazon, in South America, is by far the greatest, and among which the Molyneux comes a long way down the list.