DESTITUTE PERSONS ACT.
AN OBJECTION A BEE SECTION. Press Association. IN VlfiltCAEG Ilili,- yestprday. An apparently arbitrary section in the Destitute Persons Act was referred to by Air. Justice Chapman yesterday. It was pointed out that the Act gave a magistrate power in the case where . a husband failed to maintain a wife, and the wife had issuod a summons, to inquire into the case, whether the husband attended or not, and in addition to making the order, the magistrate might imprison for six months. Apparently it will not lie necessary to serve a summons on the husband. His Honor said lie had heard a good deal about' Russian administration of justice, but it was hard to believe that such a law could be enacted in the British dominions. • However, he believed that the com- , mon-sense of the magistrates would prevent them from exercising their power under the section.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2100, 7 June 1907, Page 1
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