Answers to Correspondents

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26659, 3 January 1948, Page 4

Answers to Correspondents

Inauirics should be addressed to (ft- the Editor, and the envelope mW scribed in the upper left-hand corner “A.T.C.” " Wager ’’ Dunedin.— Although licences are not now granted for hotel licensees to employ barmaids, women who were licensed as barmaids before the aw was altered in this respect may still serve in hotel bars and some are in employ- ™“ Anxious,” Mosgiel.—lf you name the variety of soap you wish to manufacture we shall endeavour to supply you with a formula which includes the use of netrol Perhaps some reader can assist '•r <• citizen. - ’ —A number of forestry comDanies most of which had their headquarters in Sydney or Auckland were in existence some 20 years ago. but. so far as we are aware, the only survivors are JNew Zealand Perpetual Products, Ltd (formerly New Zealand Perpetual Forests) . which has not yet paid a dividend, and -the Whakatane Paper Mills. It is open to question whether your English correspondent has accurately given you the ' name of the company in which she is tnvterested, but, if an inquiry were made from the Registrar of Companies in Wellington, you would be able to ascertain whether a company of the name mentioned is still registered " Bluey,” Caversham.—The distance between Halifax (Nova Scotia) and Glasgow (Scotland) by sea route is 2365 nulcs The distance from Sydney to Auckland (sea route) is 1231 miles, and from Sydney to Bluff 1107 miles. .