MAINTENANCE CASES.
CLAIMS FDR WIVES & CHILDREN
ORDERS GRANTED BY COURT.
At the Paeroa Magistrate’s Court on Monday last, before Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., Angus Ronald McKinnon, labourer, Paeroa, was charged with failing to provide adequate maintenance for his wife and child at the rate of £1 a week, as provided for under a maintenance order made by Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., on August 17, 1925. Arrears were also claimed.
Mr R. S. Carden appeared /or defendant .and Mr C. N. O’Neill for the complainant. Dr. T. G. Smith stated that he had examined McKinnon a.nd found him in "poor health jind unfit to do hard work. Sustained 'manual labour would be very bad for him. Defendant said that from March 12 to date he had earned only £32. He was engaged on a farm owned by a Miss Cheevers, but apart from his keep he had not got anything out of the venture. He was 59 years of age and in poor health. His wife was a strong woipan, and had been working since they had been separated. She was making about 30's a week, and he believed she was also receiving about 5s a week for the child. He could not pay off the arrears of maintenance, amounting to about £l7. To Mr O’Neill defendant said that his wife had been in a hospital with appendicitis. His wife was at Kerepelehi, but he would not believe she was working for her keep only. The first order was for 30s a week, which had been reduced tp £1 a week. Owing to ill-health and the difficulty in getting work it had not been possible to keep up the payments. The magistrate made an order reducing the arrears by half, to be paid at the rate of 5s a week. An order was also made reducing the amount of maintenance to ,15s a week, in default one month’s imprisonment. MAINTENANCE FOR CHILD.
An application was made for maintenance from E. C. Dally, labourer, Komata Reefs, on account of his child, who is at present in a receiving home at Hamilton.
After thp examination of defendant the magistrate made an order of 5s a week.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5160, 3 August 1927, Page 2
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365MAINTENANCE CASES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5160, 3 August 1927, Page 2
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