HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10114, 8 October 1910, Page 5

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

A RECONCILIATION. T n the Magistrate's Court at Masterton yesterday, before Mr L. G. Reid, S.M., a man named John Grant was charged with facing to maintain his wife and four children, the eldest of whom was ten years and the youngest two years of age. Mr P. L; Hoiling?, who appeared for accused, said his client " reig anx j._ ous to his'family, 1/ut was only earning 29s per week, and found so.

Ellen Grant, on oath, deposed that she and her husband were living apart, but were not legally separated. Her husband, when he left her, had to pay 25s per week toward the suppol'* <>f the -family.- He had paid for some ijme, but since May last she had not hearJ ,*rpm mm, and had received nothing. She C!'' as m r ®" ceipt of 10s 'per week from. ®e Charitable Aid Board.

Mr Rollings': Are you willing to take your'husband ".back, to live with you? . ' I ",.•' Witnes3: I am, so long as he keep 3 the family. '.'.-.- Mr Hollings:. There is no grievance between you?

. Witness: No; only that he ought to pay for our keep. hit Worship adjourned the ca e for a month, and expressed the hope that the husband and wife would live amicably together, and that the defendant, .would make the necessary provision- for the keep of his family.