LEFT LITTLE NEST

NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 9

LEFT LITTLE NEST

~Q Couple of Birds Who diint Agree (FrOhl "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) Fre.deHck Bihd courted his Caroline some years ago, and the pair eventually went off to live m the little nest ihat he had provided. iThia song of "Come, Birdie Come,' ? latet* turned to "Bye, Bye, Black Sird 1 ' when his mate spread hep winos and flew away, having obtained ah order for separation and maintenance against him. ftUT he took a lesson from the early D bird, and kept a watchful eye on fcis.departod mate — and incidentally he forgot to pay .the. maintenance the court had ordered. He thought he was beyond the law, for he had b6en advised that what, he had learned of his Wife's doings since she left. the shelter of nls home absolved him from the payment of maintenance. He protested loudly when his wife asked for payment of the arrears, arid alleg-ed that she had been living with another man. Since the separation. This, he thought, freed him frbni his obligutions towards her. ■ y ■ "1 have never refused to keep that woman. I'll get witnesses to prove it," he tol4 Magistrate Hunt. He then cross-examined his wife abotit tier behavior since she had left him. . "Isn't, it a fadt that you lived with Mr Doyle 7 ?" he asked. , . ' Hia wife smiled. "Isn't it a fact that you put Mr. Doyle m the house;' to keep me from going- out?" she retaliated. The SIM., intervened to ask the point of -the quostions, to which Bird replied! that he wanted to prove that his wife had livsd .with another man, so that he could have the existing ordei' cancelled. . "I think you.had better get legal advice on the matter and bring your application . before the court, properly, later," said the magistrate. The husband intimated that he would do this, arid he was" ordered to pay naif-a- crown a Week dff -the arrears.