A FAMILY DISPUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 193, 13 February 1914, Page 7

A FAMILY DISPUTE.

j ISLIND MAN'S MAINTENANCE. I Two eases in connection with a family I dispute which has from to time during the ]iast eight years oieupied ■ the attention of the Magistrate's Court j at New Plymouth were dealt with yes- [ terdav by Mr. A. Crooke, S.M. I The first was an application by Harry Eva, senr. (Mr. C. H. Weston) for the cancellation of an order made eight years ago by whitdi he aad to pay 2s Oil per week to ths support of his brothel', Philip Eva, senr., for whom Mr. UewMcy, (instructed by Messrs Stamlish ami Stamiish) appeared.

The circumstaices of the ease us related by Mr. Weston, and borne wit by the evidence of the applicant, were that on- July 31, 1!)0."), orders were made for the maintenance of Phillip Kva. senr., against the applicant for 2s Cd per week, against another lyother William for a like ammunt. and against two sons, Phillip Kva, junr., and Harry Kva. .juur., for ."is per week each. WillunTi Kva, the In-other of the present applicant, never paid any mon'ey, nor was he forced to do so, and the two sons paid very little. The applicant, however, had paid the money from time to time, sometimes under compulsion, lipt lip was now 57 years of aire, having lost the permanent position which ke lield when the order was made, and existed on the proceeds of casual labor. The house in which he lived was, however, his ow;n. He how felt that as bis brother's three sons were grown up they, and not he. should support their father, ami he asked for the cancellation of the order, lie had paid th« maintenance money up to 'November 14, 1012. Mr. Dewier opposed the cancellation, stating that, his client (who did not appear) was totally blind and unable to work, lie thought the applicant could afford to pay the money. The Magistrate said lie could not cancel the order, hut would reduce the amount payable under it to Is fid per week as from November 14 last. Henry Kva, of Palmerston North, a son of the blind man. was then charged with having failed to obey the maintenance order made in 1000. He did not appear. Mr. T.ewley stated that the arrears to December, 1013, amounted to iilJO. Defendant was ordered to -pay this amount forthwith, in _ default one month's imprisonment in Wellington s»aol, the order to be suspended as long as lie pays 10s per week in reduction of the amount.