Husbands Troubles
REAL HARD LUCK STORY STILL HAS SMILE LEFT W ITH seven children dependent upon him, maintenance arrears £202 to meet, and a divorce petition just served upon him, Christopher Thomas Morris still had the heart to smile at Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., when he stepped into the dock at the Police Court this morning. He was charged with being in arrears on a maintenance order. Morris, in evidence, said he had been served with a divorce petition before he came into Court. He had no children by his wife. “I’m not going to say hard words about the wife.” he said to the Magistrate, "but she broke the rope first.” “I was £l6 in arrears and I asked her to give me a chance. I was struggling to make a little farm in a flax swamp, but sh£> would not wait I went to gaol for six months for not sendin • her the money, and while 1 was in pi ™ on - the farrn was sold up.” Morris now attempts to meet his numerous obligations with casual labour, which yields a little over <* •> , week. I even turned up tobacco to make ends meet,” he said. The case was adjourned until August 16. when the divorce proceedings will have ended.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 98, 16 July 1927, Page 9
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