JAMES' CAPERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1192, 4 October 1928, Page 3

JAMES' CAPERS

English Wife Makes It Awkward C^rom "N.Z. Truth's" Auokland RepQ James Kare Kendall left his home m England and sailed atoay to try his fortune Under the Southern ' Cross. His wanderings brought him to New, Zealand, and In far Southland,, m the town of Invercargiil, he made his home. . pORTUNEI" favored him, for tjie town A took him to its bosom, and there he found employment which brought hini m £300 a year. But fickle Lady Fortune had a joker up her' sleeve, Kendall had left a wife, behind him when he left England for pastures new— and she did not let him forget it. This man from overseas did not long remain a stranger m a strange land, but m these southern isles he found a mate, and unto them, two children were born. And all this time Kendall's lawfully-, wedded wife m.' England wondered, until she at last sought to obtain arrears ..in a maintenance order she had previously had made In her favor against him. Thereby hangs the sequel to this young husband's journey from his home land; for before Magistrate Hunt last week Kendall was the defendant m ah application for the payment, of £26 arrears m the order of £2 a week maintenance granted to his- English wife. His story was that, he had beenasked for his. resignation from the employment m Invercargill because his wife at Home had communicated with his employer. He was now working m Auckland, but that i» did not pay him very well, for m j -one week he had received only £1. i Kendall applied for a variation of 'the order and the cancellation of the arrears'. ' . ' • - The S.M. dismissed the application for the payment of arrears and also defendant's application for variation and cancellation. "Don't think you axe going to get out of the liability," said the S.M. to defendant, and added: "You'll have to pay it sooner or later, you know."

Lawyer J. J. Sullivan (who appeared for defendant): Oh, some day, your worship. ; ■ .