MAGISTRATE'S COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10272, 6 May 1919, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

YESTERDAY’S PROCEEDING'S,

Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., presided over yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court.

Robert O’Leary, who had committed a bleach of his prohibition order, was convicted and discharged. The accused had kept his order for ten months, and on that account was leniently dealt with.

Erie Larsen, a seaman on the Terpsichore, pleaded guilty to being absent from the ship without leave. The captain said the defendant left the vessel through a misunderstanding. Larsen asked to he paid off, and witness promised to consider the request. The defendant was conwicted tnd ordered to pay the cost incurred in arresting him.

Johan Adolf Carlsen, a native of Norway, explained that he left the ship Bessa because ho was unwell. The master of the vessel stated that Carlsen, who is an articled seaman, cleared out with his belongings; he made no mention of being sick. The accused was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment, and was ordered to be placed on board his ship before she sails. MAINTENANCE OASES. Clara Helen Thomson proceeded against her husband, John Thomson, for a separation order, with maintenance and the guardianship of her child. The grounds for the application was persistent cruelty. The applicant said her husband was addicted to drink, and when in a drunken condition illtreated her. Oh one occasion he kicked her so severely that she had to go into the hospital for treatment. yi separation order, with guardianship, and maintenance at the rate of £1 3s per week, was granted. Action was taken against William GTaylor by his wife, who sought a separation order with maintenance. ■ Taylor said that her husband had been in the employ of the Government as a veterinary surgeon at a salary of £4OO per annum, and three months ago he resigned his position in order to go . into private practice at Stratford. Before going away she received £lO from him, but had received nothing since. The children of the marriage were all over sixteen years of, age. The magistrate granted the order, with £3 per week—the maximum-together with £SO as past maintenance and £2 2s Susan Miles said she was the mother of six children, the eldest of whom was fifteen and the youngest three years of age. Her husband had delirium tremens more than once, and was seldom sober. When, living in Wanganui her husband gave her £2 10s per wool;, but since coming to Wellington the allowance had been .much less. His conduct towards her had been such that she was compelled to leave him and obtain employment to support the children. An order, with maintenance at the rat© of £2 per week,' was granted. _. Letitia Louis McKay applied for a maintenance order from her husband, Georg" McKay. The parties were married in 1903, and the hudband went to the front in 1915. He came back in 1918, and since his return had not supported her. The magistrate said that it appeared to he a case of jealousy on the part of both parties, and apparently with no foundation. The defendant was obliged to support ■ his wife, and maintenance at the rate of £1 Ss per week would be granted.