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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 December 1915, Page 4

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FOR READY REFERENCE,

HINTS TO TRA VELLERtj

IN OPEN COUNTRY

If unknown ground is to be traversed and a long day's journey lies before you, be careful to make an early .start ia the morning, ascertain leading directions before starting, and bo certain to understand them thoroughly, as time thus spent is not lost on a long day's journey. Should you lose your way, and know of' any habitation within reach, a milo or two is not lost » making enquiries there regarding vour road. Never travel without matches. Never take a short cut over swampy or unknown ground. Always follow sheep or cattle tracks in the direction for which you are making. If overtaken by fog, should you know a point guide yourself by it, and embrace every chance of a clearance of the flying mist, however slight, to discern a known object to guide your path. Should you miss track, return at once without fail tj the point at which you lost it, and- make a fresh start on the right track. ii compelled to camp out overnight, choose a sheltered spot ouiore darkness sots in, giving yourself sullicieut time to complete all possible arrangements for personal comfort under such untoward circumstances in the way of gathering fire material, grass lor bed, which place in rear of a llax bush. If raining, tie the ends ol the llax to tussocks around, so as to from a gentle awning to cover the body and throw the rain off. This, with tussocks to fill up ilio gaps in the llax covering, will make not such uncomfortable quarters for the night as many suppose. "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS.

Employers are made responsible for accident to workmen under certain conditions. Limit of liability where death results, JtoO, but nothing in Act to affect employers' ordinary civil liability. Where total or partial incapacity for work results from ike injury-j compensation to be a weekly payment not ic&» than JCi 'a week, and total liability ol employer not to exceed £51)0. An employer not to bo liable in respect ot an injury which is proved to bo directly attributable to the serious and wjliul misconduct of tho workw.

j STAMP DUTIES. Agreement of Memorandum of Agreement, la 3d with letters, etc., attached, 3s. Appraisement ol Valuation where the | amount, does not exceed £20, Is.; ex- ! eced £-0, does not exceed £50,' 2ti Od, ! exceed £100, and does not exceed £2\io ? 10s, £200 and does not exceed £o'JO 1 15s, exceeds £500 20s. I Award, came as Valuations, except | exceeds USUO but not £1000, 20s; exj ceeds JJIOOO, 355. j i'.n's. not exceeding £25 Od, exceeds • u26, and not exceeding u.50 Is, every » additional £5U or part oi JkloO Is. ; j 10s. ! Bills of Exchange. Oon demand 2>i; .! otherwise than on demand, if running [j singly, lor any amount not exceeding t ;i-50, Is; every additional £50 or part lcu £50, is.; if drawn in a set, sucii .sum upon each bdi ol the set as to make Jipi the same duly as 11 a single Dill were drawn for the amount. Conveyance.—Conveyance on sale: For every £50 or part ol £50 of tiio ; amount oi the consideration lor sale, j i& Od. jt Any iustrument whereby any proper- \ ty is legally or equitably transferred to | or vesied in any person lor a nominal consideration or where no consideration passes, lor ©very £50 or part of £50 of the amount or value oi the property conyeyed or transferred or assessed under "'JjSjc Property Assessment Act, J labo/? any Act amending the -ante at the date when such instrument takes elfect, 10s. Proiityssory Notes.—i'ayment on demand 2d.. Payable otherwise than en demand: .For every sum nob exceed- ! ing £25, Gd/j. exceeding £25 and not i exceeding £s(i, is.; every additional £50 or part, of £50, Is. Duplicate or counterpart of any in- | struiuent chargeable with duty, where i such duty does not amount to 3s, the same duties us the original instrument; m any other case 3s. Land Transfers.—benerally speaking, the same duties ad would have been payable on a conveyance. Lease, or 'Agreement,to Lease, with't out any consideration by way of pre at- [ ,ium: Where rent does not exceed £od i; :3c for every additional £50 or part | .of £50 3a. Fox any instrument affecting a parti- • .tioii of lands upon any consideration !: toxceediiig £100. I' Soldiers' estates are exempt from all I; duty up to £5000 in srespeet to every !' succession by lineal descendant or an- !,' •ceutor.