Answers To Correspondents

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27573, 15 December 1950, Page 8

Answers To Correspondents

“ Wondering,” Rongahere.—All the information asked for will be supplied on application to the price control division of the Department of Industries and Commerce, Dunedin. A. M. G., Dunedin.—ln the absence of more convincing proof of the cause of the damage, any answer we could give would be mere hypothesis. We suggest that the most reliable method of ascertaining the cause is to maintain a close watch. “ Subscriber,” Lawrence.—A definite answer cannot be given to your question without fuller particulars with respect to the incomes mentioned by you, including allowances made for insurances, etc., as shown on the income tax forms. You should communicate with the office of the Land and Income Tax Department. 399 Moray place, Dunedin. "A Patient," Dunedin.—We have been unable to obtain a copy of the rules of quoits or deck tennis. The Encyclopaedia Britannica states, inter alia: “The rules of quoits seem to have varied greatly in different localities. With the increasing popularity of the game of horseshoes, quoits has virtually died out. A court shall consist of two pitchers’ boxes with a stake in the centre of each, and shall cover an all-over area 10 feet wide and 50 feet long. The pitching distance shall be 40 feet between stakes; ladies’ distance, 30 feet. The stakes shall extend 12 inches above the surface and inclining three inches toward each other. A regulation game shall consist of 50 points. It may be added that in a game of deck tennis or quoits a player cannot throw overhand and cannot hold the ring for more than three seconds. It cannot be caught with both hands or against the body. A plavp* cannot juggle with it and catch it at the second attempt or allow it to run along the arm to touch he body.