Answers To Correspondents

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27568, 9 December 1950, Page 10

Answers To Correspondents

“ Feminine Disgust at Masculine Greed." Rather intemperate. “A Worried Mother.”—We do not customarily print letters that have appeared elsewhere. “ Waiting," Waitahuna.—Your query haa been handed to Mr D. Tannock, and the answer will appear in next weeks gardening notes. “ Card Sharper,” Balclutha.—(l) In a game of 500 the joker is the highest trump where there is a trump bid, and if a trump is led the player holding the joker must play it if he has no other trumps. In a no-trump hand the joker is a suit by itself, and the holder of the joker cannot play it if he can follow suit. Not being able to follow suit, he can discard a card of another suit as often a« he chooses, or play the joker when he pleases. (2) Scrutineers, when apointed to count the votes, at an election for a committee of a club or other organisation, have the same right to vote as that of other members, and they record their votes before collecting the voting slips. “ Discussion." Clutha Valley.—A definite statement as to the inflammable nature or otherwise of the nylon and crepe material. which you say is extensively used in children’s frocks, cannot be made without a scientific examination of the particular material concerned, and we suggest that you send a sample to the office of the Department of Industries, Dunedin, with a request that it be submitted to the Government Analyst, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dunedin.