Answers to Correspondents

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26473, 29 May 1947, Page 6

Answers to Correspondents

I G J.—The time for the broadcasting of the feature to which you refer has now been changed to 9.30 p.m on WedParcel,” Clyde.—(l) The postage rates for gift parcels to the United Kingdom are: Up to 31b, 2s; up to 71b, 3s 4d; up to 111 b4s 6d; up to 221 b, 7s. (2) -The sales tax on an imported radio is 20 per cent, of the sales value. J. K., Seacliff—A cribbage hand consisting 'of two fives, two sixes and one seven counts 16 (four for two pairs and 12 for four runs of three each). P C T., Roxburgh.—Write by air mail to the Postmaster, Norfolk Island, enclosin'* the necessary amount of money. The air mail connecting the two countries leaves every Wednesday from the North Island and reaches Norfolk Island the same day. . . A E D Kurow.—The basic training is the same on all RAF stations, although there may be minor local variations dependent on circumstances, or, the ideas of the respective commanding officers. Various stations, however, afford training in the specialist branches of the service (2) In view of the wartime policy of dispersal, it W'as customary fo r bombers to take off from several fields and make a rendezvous for a major raid. (3) Shuttle services were operated from Britain to various points in North Africa or Italy but the missions were based on expediency and not on any regular schedule. In view of the distance involved Egypt was seldom, if ever, the other terminal point. (4) Certain types of aircraft employed on such missions may have used auxiliary fuel tanks, but no special aircraft was developed •• climate.” —Your statement that Dunedin's maximum temperature during the period 1918-1942 was never below 80 degrees is not borne out by the records.