A WELLINGTON WASTREL.

NZ Truth, Issue 69, 13 October 1906, Page 5

A WELLINGTON WASTREL.

Railway Man Neglects to Support

His Mother.

There is an individual employed on the Wellington railways m some capacity or other who had better look afiur his poor old mother m Christchurch. His name, is William Sinclair Bennington, and he left the southern city some four months ago to ,take a billet' in Wellington, promising to send along £l a month towards the old lady's support. He contributed £1, and then knockedbff suddenly. Mrs Bennington is now 53 years of age, and is unable to work owing to illness, and she has no means of getting any unless her I children come to her rescue. On Tuesday last Christina Bennington, a sister of the Wellington railway bloke, climbed into the box at the Christchurch Poiice Court, and told the above facts, and regretted the lax way m which W. S. B. kept hi 9 written promise (produced by Counsel Graham). She also said that her mother had been ill for practically right months, and that her brother, she believed, was m receipt o 7s 6d a day. A weekly dole of 7s 6d a week' was asked for. and after consideration Magistrate Day. who referred to the cos"t of livins; m Wellin nrlon as compared with Christ(•■uiich, said he wxwld make an order for t.hat amount. So his nibs William Sinclair B. must part un or look out for more blue paper of a more peremptory and non r pleasing character. He wasn't represented at the hearing but he had received the summons, so 'twas said. He had better hay« kept up the £1 a inontb.