MAINTENANCE ARREARS
ARREST AFTER SEVERAL YEARS. Masterton, December 29. A warrant for the arrest of Edward Egan, issued at Masterton in respect to arrears of maintenance close on six years ago, was executed at Palmerston North on Mondaylast, when Egan was taken into custody on a charge of drunkenness. To-day Egan, who is a carpenter by occupation, appeared before Mr.’ S. L. P. Free, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Masterton, charged with being in arrears of maintenance to the extent of £3l up to December 23, 1921, in respect to an order for the support of his child.
Sergeant T. 11. Dyer said that Egan, had been arrested for drunkenness at Palmerston North, and then the maintenance charge had been brought against him. The £3l arrears were up to the time that the warrant was issued, but they now amounted to £lB7. Accused was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as accused pays 10/- per week current maintenance and 5/- per week off the arrears. A condition was also imposed that Egan report to the police once a month.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19271231.2.22
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3736, 31 December 1927, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
186MAINTENANCE ARREARS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3736, 31 December 1927, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in