CUPID AND COLLINGERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1177, 21 June 1928, Page 8

CUPID AND COLLINGERS

A Connubial Controversy Creates Consternation In Court (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) \ Abraham Alfred and Pauline Collinger may be temperamentally opposed and totally unsuited to each other for matrimonial conformity, but one' thing at least they have m common; that is\ a healthy flow of verbosity m dealing with their domestic woes. ABRAHAM, m particular, seems to "Don't shout!" he ordered, "just have been well to the fore when whisper to each other for a taoment." vocal accessories were on issue to Counsel: "I want to show your worhumanity—4f manner of speech is any ship that he has* told a lie." } indication, he is a somewhat highly- Magistrate : "All right, t will assume strung individual. - that he is lying;." . This was manifest last week m the "Where do you work?" continued ,the Auckland Magistrate's Court, whither lawyer . with his . interrogation.— "__t the Collingers— sadly at variance re- Maxim's Toilet Parlors." V" specting the upshot of an existing Mrs. Collinger hastily volunteered maintenance order — met before Magis- the ' information that Abraham: could -. trate Hunt. . . get £4/17/6 a week at his trade. '{'-'■ Pauline kept her appointment with Her husband differed, however/ as , the court with * a view to having her he seemed to do m most other matters '■ husband's attention and purse raised by his wife's counsel. r ' directed upon a sum of .2 82/5/- ar.- He further asserted that it was imrears, due on the aforesaid order, possible to obtain employment at his which was decided upon by a Sydney own trade. magistrate some time ago; £4/10/- o"f Lawyer Moody "Your wife, has this sum was settled before the pro- property m Sydney, I believe."-— ceedings. "She has m Victoria." On the other hand, Abraham was „__ , .__ __ there to turn the taps of volubility , This Abraham backed up with some upon an application for variation of home-truths regarding his wife's the order and cancellation of arrears, boasts of wealth when their love knot ...... . _ ... , „ . received the ritual tug. • V^i 1 lawyers Sullivan (wife) "When we were married," he said, and Moody (husband)— neither be- "she talked of money that was Owing ing notably prone to sotto voce to her. She -. said she - had < lent cross-examining discourse — the this and that- to so-and-so and £1000 party was anything but dull. t0 her brother-in-law. .' . ." Pauline, wearing a pair of dark- During the course of Colliriger's gar- . rimmed spectacles which may have ac- rulity the name "Mike" was thrownf. centuated what appeared to be an m by one ov other of the parties. y air of severity, took the witness-box Lawyer Moody clutched at the name, to give a synoptical history of the thinking it pertained to a blood. relay whereupons of her ,_ tion. of the wife— y taking tandem the Collingers both tracks with Collin- r rrr . s^l. bein S of Hebrew, ger, and which had If} / TOt)IC LjllfflC extraction, led to the separation lIL X ' U I JL^ V^"'"^- . ■ "What!" exclaim- : order and subae- ■ ' ' ed the lawyer,;. quent arrears. . "'Mike' the name/ It was while they were resident m of a Jew!" . -'.: Sydney that Abraham Alfred con- "The two races are very friendly . ceived a strong hankering for the now," retorted opposing counsel, with scented tropic lure of Fiji, to which a broad smile. , he ultimately succumbed. The question was then raised by . His departure for Suva was against Mrs. Collinger as to the respective Pauline's spousal wish, although Law- ages of her husband's two daughters. .. yer Moody disputed this point. It was contended that one of . them, : At all events' there was a warrant at least, was seventeen years old and^ issued for Collinger'S arrest. After able to earn her own living. J some deldy, following his apprehension In a snappy argument concerning the; m Auckland, where he was either en elder girl's birthday, Pauline demon,/ route to— or oh his return from— Fiji, strated the traditional infallibility of he was taken back to Sydney and her sex with respect to another wo- . Pauline. man's age — it was shown that the SydCollin'ger's own story told of wide- ney girl was now several months into spread -calls upon his meagre re- her seventeenth year, sources of £4/5/- per week. This daughter. Collinger told the There was £1 per week for paternal court under cross-examination, was support of a daughter m Sydney, while serving an apprenticeship m a furAbraham had also to keep a diligent rier's shop, but he hi.d no idea of her: watch on the outgoing English mail, earnings. otherwise another daughter — this time -r «♦♦!■„„ „,. Ai.r_l._, m '_ _» n ,.+i_ ' m London-would surely be wondering M To . t \ mg + u P , lrt f a~\l2a *a <W' . _T \_ _» •_. j i« j„«« /..,. /im. Magistrate Hunt decided to dis» what had happened to dear old dad. .^J^ oh , igat!on to the And there it was, m isimple youngster m the furrier line, arithmetic: 85/- (weekly wages); By altering the order to 30/-- a week, less 30/- (modicum to daughters); the husband would then' be left with less 35/- (his own board); balance £2 for himself. Arrears suspended. 40/- for wife's maintenance. No! The arrangement did not meet with v v :* ««.iiw«'* h a rinn« Pauline's approval. In a shrill voice -it couldnt be done. she th 6 flnal worU which It was when Lawyer Sullivan pro- was to throw a new — and somewhat duced a sheaf of documents and poked frivolous — light on her husband's chathem under Abraham's nose that the racter. heat of the proceedings reached "Abra- "Why, he has money to enjoy himham Heights." self and play cards. He is playing No, he didn't know anything about card's three or four, times a week," she a bill of sale . . . nor did he even complained from her seat at the lawknow what a bill of sale was. . . . yers' table. "And the Cabaret— he** With counsel persisting and Abra- there every Saturday night!" ham's protests increasing m volume, "Well, you go to the cabaret, tot/ 5 the bench was constrained to intervene, softly sympathised the bench,