A LITTLE BIT MORE TO PAY
and
Charming Must Part Up Find Some Arrears
(From "N.Z; Truth's" Special . Auckland Representative). So disgusted does Florence Charming appear to be with matrimony, that she has removed .her wedding-ring from its customary place on the third finger of her left hand to her second finger. At least, that is where she wore it when she laid her troubles, through the medium of, Mr. Les. Adams, before Mr. Hunt, S.M., at the Auckland court.
NOT so many moons ago, the court was led to understand that Mrs. Charming, discovering that her husband, Frederick; was more devoted to sporting around m his motor-car % ". than to his spouse and juvenile . responsibilities, entered into a deed of separation under which' it was agreed that he Bhould pay her £3/5/- a week. .•. . Complainant said that she had had £20 from her husband for 'clothes, but her reason for coming to court was to ask for ah increase of the amount agreed upon.' She considered that he cleared £1.0 a week at his business of hairdressing, had his own car, and "generally had a "good time." Her own savings had dwindled from £10 to a few shillings since September. "But you entered into an agreement," Mr. Hunt was prompted to say. "She did," agreed Mr. Adams, "but she found it hopeless to try to get along. He's not paying her maintenance, and she's asking for it." Mr. Sullivan, who was there for Frederick, submitted that a deed had been entered into; and demanded to know what there was to justify any alteration. Mr. Hunt: "We can't have them entering into deeds and then coming here." "The wife is destitute, sir," objected iiiiiyiuiiiiiiininniinnmnniinniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnHiiiiiin
: Mr; Adams, "while he drives around m , his car." Frederick, with his hands m his pockets, stepped forward briskly, and i said: "I'm prepared to take her back." i When Mr. Runt asked about his increasing the amount of maintenance : temporarily, Frederick said he would : keep up the £3/5/- payment regularly. Being put into the witness-box and examined as to his means, he estimated his earnings at about £9 clear, but this, he corrected to. say that he meant £6, and he paid an apprentice. He had taken up ladies' hairdressing, which Mr. Sullivan considered the cause of the trouble. He made no reply when it was stated for the reason that he was m the habit of taking- other ladies out for drives. He did not deny that he had lent another man some fairly large sums of money. 'It was shown that he. had sections at Papatoetoe, which were paid up and had cost £200 each, and an-, other elsewhere which had cost him £250. This evidence dispelled all doubts m the mind of the bench, and forthwith Frederick was ordered to add 15/- a week to the sum which had been agreed upon under the deed. He was also ordered to pay <£20 arrears straight away. iiuHiuiiinnniiiiniininniiiniinnuniiiiiiiiniiiintiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiniii
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NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 7
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