CHRISTCHURCHIANA.

NZ Truth, Issue 132, 28 December 1907, Page 6

CHRISTCHURCHIANA.

Vp'roin Our X3htjstchureli-. Correspond dent), ■ " . -*■* — ...&...■ ' PERKY PARKER, Bis Wife Suffers and He Goes • to Gaol. . fThere arc a lot of Parkers m! Christchurph, but the husband - of ■aFrancis Sarah' P.< ought to bedump-t cd m the sea and kept there until (there would be no inquest. He lias children^'to keep and doesn't keep ithem, and they have had to be sent hIo the Receiving Home, a place that whildren don't like to be sent t<i. This joker is m gaol for not keeping yhis'i J offspring. The wife has been paying so much a week apparently, but ghat's not the cheese. The father ; should pay and not the moiher. '-\ ?'Why should HE GO TO GAOL' j every time he owes money ?" asked hthe Magistrate. "Why indeed ?" '» 'Truth" replies and doesn't knpw, Umle'ss he is a, damned scamp * and . (don't care a hang. Yet Sarah'Show£ed light on things. She stated that ' ! while she was m the hospital, her husfbbnd cpliaiiited wltf; another. Woman jand did all sorts of things. That was Well, it ,is this way; now :. jfThe order against the woman stands suspended ari-d the husband will have ko pay like hell when he; comes out. [But a bloke like that ought to be -kept ■m. And he will be if he is "kept m. 'Assuming he don't pay..'; Also, why shouldn't he be /■ ' QkoP '\ife seems to suit him ; the billet of. loafing .is more congeniar' to 'his tajste than: ; any flyork outside:' v L " , '■;;