ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 6

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

[Questions will not be answered unless accompanied by the name and address of correspondents.] " Inquirer," Waikouaiti.—lt is not legal to use a drag-net for catching whitebait in rivers. G. P.—Mr Hamilton and Mr Coates each receive £I3OO a year. The Labour Party's system of the pooling of salaries makes it impossible to say the amount actually received by the other members of the War Cabinet—Mr Fraser, Mr Nash and Mr Jones. "Justice," Greenfield.—Your letter is in the main, irrelevant to that to which you profess to make a reply. "Interested." Clydevale.—lf you communicate with the Officer in Charge, Country Library Service. Parliament Buildings, Wellington, the information which you seek will be forwarded to you. v i "Anxious," Greenfield. —No general recruiting for the navy is being carried out at the present time. Vacancies in the various branches of the service are. however, advertised from time to time in the daily newspapers, and your best plan will be to, apply for one of these. "Inquirer," Ranfurly.—lt will be necessary for you to lodge an aDplication with your local post office for a.permit to remit money. If the book is not procurable in New Zealand, this will be granted. " Inquirer," Lawrence.—Sir Thomas Sidey was a member of the Liberal Parly and later of the United Party, to which the Liberals gave their allegiance. He was never associated with the Labour Party. D. W., Broad Bay.—The insect is a mantis, which name is commonly applied to genera which constitute the family mantidae of the insect order othoptera. The mantis is carnivorous in habit, but it does not actively pursue its prey. It waits patiently until a fly comes within reach, then rapidly seizes it with its forelegs and devours it.