AN UNUSUAL CASE.
M A ETON, Nov. 18
A rather iinusuM case came before Mr Page, S.M., this morning, at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court, when the police applied to have an order made against the grandfather of an illegitimate child.
Sergeant Burke gave an outline of defendant's circumstances, and explained that the whereabouts of the father of the child was not known, and the mother was contributing towards the child’s maintenance in the industrial school.
The Magistrate said that he had power under the Destitute Persons Act to make an order against the grand fat’vr, and an order was made tor a payment of 2s 6d weekly.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1025, 19 November 1912, Page 3
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107AN UNUSUAL CASE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1025, 19 November 1912, Page 3
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