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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 201, 23 August 1904, Page 2

The difficulty which the Bench constantly iinda in ascertaining the true state of the finances of persons who appear before the Court in maintenance case 3 caused the Magistrate (Mr C. C. Kettle) to make some remarks to-Jay on the system followed at present uiidiT t l ie law. lie considered it absolutely wrong. It was jiot possible to ascertain from the individuals themselves the true state of their linances, and this left the . Court in a state of chaos. The nnJy way out of fie djfiiculty w2.ich he eouid see would be the introduction of a system by which every person who had any of their dependents S'lppjrted by the public charitable institutions should be made to render to the local authority monthly a sworn statement of nis or her income and expenditure. He remanded most of the maintenance eases i before him this morning for a mc nth or , two months, in order that the defend- j ants in them shouli keep a true amount j of their earnings and expenditure for him to see at the end of the period. Mr Fraw, the third officer of the s.s. Moura, while superintending the loading of fruit at Suva, received an injury to his shoulder through a sling of fn.it falling and striking him. He was left behind at the Suva Hospital. Mr Caffin, the purser of the =ame vessel, also went ashore at Suva for medical attention, i His place on the steamer has been tem-1 porarily filled by Mr E. Mulqueen, of the Btnra office of the Union Company. Mr Mulqueen was previously a purser on I gaged in the "Sew Zealand trade SuprCmo Court ***** by ->< el- wttled. Ua " e3 ' haa *><** pri-