FATHER CALLS UPON SONS FOR SUPPORT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 October 1931, Page 4

FATHER CALLS UPON SONS FOR SUPPORT

M££N5; . ROTORTJA- ^PPL| Cl ATI 0 N In the Rotorua Magistrate's Gourt yesterday, Captain H'erbert Ross Macdonal4" (Mr.: E: : Bro ef /' oft the"l>gr"o'unds that he M d 'de^titUte person, made application that his two sons, • Neil t.Macdonald b'ank pfllcer"6| Whangarei; ' an^ '^erh'ert ' Mac^onaid; service car 4r,}yer p'| 'Rotorua, *££ ca^ed upon to conti*|j)^fe .tpwards 'fcis maintenance. 4. " """■" •* - " " The applicant, Macdonald, produced a staterhent of ,the"affaih,s of'"Ms edtate'Vhich- showfea'that"his1 total ihterest over liabilities in his ditferent propertids was' £312 12s"lld W'ln evidence", "said that he had very re'hxotS prospects of realising aPy' of this lnterest.' • • ' ' 1 Mr. W. -A« Carter, for the sons, bro'aght 'eyi'dence'tb* sho1^ 'that' the' 'defeh^afit l4e|l Mac'4ohald whs cdhtr'ib4ting^ vfeeldy tov'} fh4 su^port b'x hi^ moth'er and had oth'er calls iipo'n 'hlm'. 'The ' other lieferidant, Herbert " MaedWald,,;,in evideffcPr stafe'd that he was a married* mah tvith twB children, * alicf at " jprbkent *wa^ ohly in casdar'workr His 'dafhings*'wefd,:n6t bi'ofe' tfrari" 30s h whek:''r" 4 t'" ***•'• Mr. Carter' 'submitted that neither of the sori's wa's 'in 'a; poSitibh to contribute 'to the father's hiaintenanCe, hiid after hearing the" evfdenh'e,- th*6 magiStrhte (Mr.' S.* E.'Batersoh, S.M.) hgreed' with this view. 1 " ' ' • "On the evidence, I would not be justified in making'an otdef,'" statec his" "V^orship. ",lThefson iri Whangarei sfee'Ms to be supporting'his mbther, and' the Idlkry iyhibh h^'reb'eiv'es ahd 1 fjh* other cdlls up'On hiin are siich that • I do"h4t thihk |'wbuld'bh justiftied in makihg' any 'further' " jnrohas upo'n Biidr in' the case*'qf thi hon here, 11 is otit of the (jiiestion fdr him tb'conttibute.' ' The ahph'catibh will be di'smissed."