HERON'S WINGS

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 7

HERON'S WINGS

The S.M. Brings Him To Earth tl^rom "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) There's something wrong somewhere! Either Robert Charles Heron* auctioneer, of Temuka, Is an unmitigated romancer of giltedged authorship or his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Heron, doesn't know when she is well off. TN February of last year, the Herons' 1 marriage lines assumed the frayed parchment of Incompatibility and an order was made holding the husband to a payment of 50/- per week in support of hla wife and child. Heron was then in a good way — sitting on one of the golden eggs of occupation for a southern firm, which hatched him out seven hundred and fifty of the best with every New Tear calendar. But he has since moulted his bright feathers of finance and recently sought a reduction of the existing order. Catherine, on the other hand, retained the assistance of Maintenance Officer Campbell to look into the matter of £75 arrears. Magistrate Hunt was on the bench in the Auckland Magistrate's Court when Lawyer Inder put forward the husband's request. Armed with a copy of Heron's evidence previously given at Temuka, counsel interrogated the neatly- dressed little wife, who, owing to health reasons, was allowed to be seated after taking the oath. '"Tour husband says you got £800 from>the sale of a property when, you left?" "I did not," promptly replied Mrs. Heron. ■■•'■■ "Did you not get the furniture and effects, 'which were Insured for £450?" ~ "I got neither a penny nor a stick of furniture." Magistrate Hunt: "What do you think about it, Mr. Campbell?" '."Well, sir," answered the maintenance officer contemplatively, "to show what his evidence is worth, he says he sent his wife a cheque for £ 15 ; the amount was only £10. Mrs. Heron brought the cheque Into me. . „ and it is the cheque of the woman he is living with." "Order reduced to &2 a week, with 5/- a week off the arrears. Three months' Imprisonment if he doesn't comply with the order,'' decided the magistrate. i niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiniMiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii