Answers To Correspondents
" Snake Gully."— Correspondents must supply their address. _ “Curious" (Cromwell). —The term “ land girl ” is no longer applied to women workers on farms. The award provides that women under the age of 21 employed on a sheep farm are to be paid £4 14s 3d a week and found, and those on a dairy farm, £5 13s a weekand found. Wages and conditions are the same as those for men. •• Section" (Opoho).—Unless your section was originally surveyed into two sections it will be necessary to have a re-survey before selling any part of it. The plan must be deposited with the chief surveyer. •• Curious ” (Tapanui). Communicate with Mr H. G. Williams. 893 Cumberland street. Dunedin, who is an authority on coins. , “Census" (Dunedin).—The population of the main cities of New Zealand, including adjacent boroughs, as at April 1, 1948, was: Auckland. 289,800; Wellington, 186,100; Christchurch, 164,000; Dunedin, 88,800. We have no record which givgs the average population of New Zealand cities compared with those of Australia.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27384, 9 May 1950, Page 8
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