NEW ARRIVALS IN COURT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 275, 11 April 1911, Page 5

NEW ARRIVALS IN COURT

PROHIBITION ORDERS AGAINST HUSBAND AND WIFE. Dunedin, Monday. Two new arrivals appeared in the Police Court 011 Saturday morning. A man applied for a prohibition ordei against his wife, who objected to an order. Tile applicant said the woman had been drinking ever since they arrived in this country nine weeks ago. She consumed three bottles of beer between 12 o'clock one night and 4 o'clock next morning. She was arrested for drunkenness the first night they arrived in Wellington from Home. The wife wanted to know when her husband was going to get work. He was spending her money and had her bank book. She had to work at Home to keep the home together. The agent for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children said that she visited the home and found the house elean and the woman perfectly sober. What she wanted wag someone to give her a helping hand. She had pone down through the drinking habits of her husband. Last week he gave her a black eye. They had three fine boys well dressed, well fed, and well mannered. The husband declined to take an order out against himself, ne said he did not take drink into the house and never got drunk himself. The Magistrate: If you want to help your wife you will do so by applying for an order against yourself. The husband eventually agreed to an order being granted against him, and his Worship thereupon issued an order against both the husband and wife.