WOMAN'S PATHETIC CASE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1098, 10 April 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S PATHETIC CASE.

HEH HUSBAND. HERSELF, AND DKINK. (By Teleeraph—Press Association.) .I- Dtincdin, April 9. Two new arrivals appeared in the Police Court on Saturday morning. One, a mau, applied for :i prohibition order against his wife who objected to an order. The applicant .said (hat (he woman had been drinking ever sine? they arrived in this country nine weeks ago. She. had consumed three bottles of beer between twelve o'clock one night and four o'clock next morning, and she had been arrested for drunkenness on the very first night that (hey spent in Wellington after arriving from Home.

The wifo wanted (o know when hop husband was going i o got; work. Ho was spending her money and had her bank book, and she had had (o work at Home to keep tho home together.

The agent for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children said that slip had visited the house, found it clean, and Hie woman perfectly sober, What sho wanted was someone to give her a helping hand. She had gone down through the drinking habits of her husband. Last week he had given her a black tyo. They had Ihren fine boys—well dressed, well fed, and well mannered.

I'll? husband declined to lake any order out against himself. He said that he did not , take drink into the house, and lip never got drunk himself.

The magistrate: If you want to help your wifo you will do so by applying for an order again.st yourself.

The husband eventually aeieod to an order being granted against him, and his .Worship thereupon issued an ordei against both the husband and wife.