Promised £50

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 5

Promised £50

wanted her for the shop. I -wouldtake her back to-day on the condition that she gets away from her mother. She was all right before she got m with this religious mob." He had only been to race meetings three times m the last two years, and the most he ever took with him at any one time was twenty-five shillings. He had a home prepared for her m Christchurch. Two rooms were already furnished, and his mother had promised him £50 to complete the home when the wife arrived. David Leslie Bert, a neighbor of the Pattersons, stated that he had never seen defendant under the influence of liquor. Constable John Hamilton, of Burnside, declared that he had always regarded Patterson as a decent young fellow. Had he been a drunkard, witness would have heard something about it. His worship declined to make an order for separation, and adjourned the case until the parties could cliscusg the matter of maintenance for the two children.