“A THRASHING A WEEK”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 220, 6 December 1927, Page 18

“A THRASHING A WEEK”

MOTHER-IN-LAW’S OPINION MAINTENANCE CLAIM FAILS FOR FOURTH TIME “No woman could live with him unless she gave him a thrashing every week.” This opinion of Leslie J. Hyland was expressed by his mother-in-law in the Onehunga Police Court.yesterday, while her daughter’s maintenance case was being heard for the fourth time. The two were married in 1921 and two years ago Hyland gave up carpentering for farming, but failed to induce Mrs. Hyland to accompany him. She prefers to live with her parents at Beresford Park, Onehunga, in her own house. She has unsuccessfully sued Hyland for maintenance on three previous occasions and failed again yesterday. Major Annie Gordon, of the Salvation Army, said that complainant was of a distinctly mental type, but had not been certified to as being mentally deficient, although- she required trained medical supervision. Mrs. Hyland said that she was earning a few shillings a week by selling flowers, and was in receipt of other money from her parents, who lived in her house. Hyland, who was given a good character, said that he was willing to have his wife with him on his farm at Bombay, but she refused to go there. “It would be better for the husband to pay for her maintenance than have her in the house,” said Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M. “She is evidently of an erratic temperament according to Major Gordon, and what Major Gordon does not know of women’s temperaments isn’t worth knowing.” The case was dismissed, costs of appeal being fixed at £ls 15s.