ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24423, 8 October 1940, Page 6

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Questions will riot be aniwered unless accompanied by the name and address of correspondents. W. S., Oamaru.-r-The rule as we stated it is correct. "Ballot.”—A man married after May j 1, 1940, is regarded as a single man in all ballots for military service for the duration of the war. "Hopeful,” Pleasant Valley.—The principle that seniority should be based purely on length of service is generally rejected as unsound. Your letter raises points that do not arise out of that to which a reply was made in last Saturday’s issue. •Wake-up.”—The Social Security Act provides that no person may simultaneously receive two benefits. As a result, a person may not receive both hospital and invalidity benefits. We are informed, however, that in cases in which a married man receiving an invalidity benefit has to enter hospital, every consideration is given by the Social Security Commission if hardship to the family is involved. •Sandy.” Clutha Valley.—(l) In the last war the ballot system was the same as that which was recently put into effect. (2) The British Isles are geographically part of Europe. (3) We have no information as to the present whereabouts of Otto Strasser, the anti-National Socialist. He lived in Paris for some time before the capitulation of France, and it was reported after that event he had been captured by the Nazis. It is not possible to ascertain whether that report is correct. " Canongate.”—The award makes provision for the employment of unskilled youth labour in the engineering trade for any period until adult age is attained, while an apprenticeship order in the industry provides for the training of skilled labour. The secretary of the Apprenticeship Committee in Dunedin may be found care of the Department of Labour.