Answers to Correspondents

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26633, 2 December 1947, Page 4

Answers to Correspondents

Inquiries should be addressed to the Editor and the envelope inscribed in the upper left-hand corner "A.T.C.”

E. C,, St. Kilda.—Your letter is being returned as too diffuse for publication. “ Inquisitive,” Dunedin.—lf the three musicians mentioned were members of the Musisians’ Union and played at the dance they are entitled to be paid for their services, but if they were not members of the union they could not claim any payment. So far as the taxi fares are concerned, if the fare was paid. for only one man, the other three who travelled in the taxi must pay their own fares, but the law now prohibits sharing a taxi, except to and from the station '.i The Musicians' Award provides for payment as follows at dances:—B p.m. ti.l 11 p.m., £1 Is 4d: 8 p.m. till 12 p.m., £1 6s 10d: 10 p.m. till 12 p.m., £1 Is 4d; 10 p.m. tiU 1 a.m., £1 12s 4d. "North Otago.”—(1) communicate with i. Mr M R. Skipworth, superintendent of re- ! serves Dunedin. (2) The question of a leaving certificate of a correspondence pupil of a primary school is judged on his year's work. (3) Any complaint with respect to undesirable conditions in the homes of school children should be made to the department concerned—the Department of Health, or the Child Welfare Officer—for investigation. The informant must give his name to the authorities treat the irtiormation given by him as cbiifidcntia], “ Fruit,” South Otago.—The present price »nd also the average price of gooseberries sor the season is about 6d a pound. Currants are not yet on the market and quotations cannot be given, but it may : be said that last season’s prices averaged 4 about fid a pound for black currants and 8d for red. There were not sufficient ‘ white currants on the market to enable a quotation to be given. R. H., Dunedin. —You have omitted to 7 supply vour name .. “'Constant Reader, Oamaru. —(1) If tile material is washed in warm, soapy water, the transfer marks should be easily removed. (2) A recipe for curing tobacco has been posted to you. ••Inquirer,” Taieri.—The rates of pay for casual work, such as turnip thinning, on farms are 2s 4}d an hour with rations, or 2s 9d an hour without rations.