ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 212, 7 September 1922, Page 4

ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.

• I , A GRANDFATHER'S LIABILITY. MAINTENANCE CLAIM DISMISSED. Mr. Poynton, S.M., to-day gave judgment in a complaint for maintenance under the Industrial Schools Act, 1908, against A. Hard wick (Mr. Singer), grandfather of an illegitimate child. Mr. Singer contended that as the child was the illegitimate child of defendant's daughter defendant was not liabla for its maintenance, and further, that if jhe was liable, he could not be made to 1 pay, because the putative father was ' already contributing 10/ per week under « section 33 of the Act, and this 10/ was I the limit recoverable. ' "I agree that the grandfather of an ■ illegitimate child cannot be compelled to i contribute to the support of such grandi child as an inmate of an industrial i school,'' said the magistrate. "The deti--1 nition of 'parent' (section 2) in th» case ' of an illegitimate child is limited to the I mother. The putative father is covered |by a special section. Under the Destii tute Persons Act the grandfather would >be liable to maintain the child. I fur- • ther think that 10/ is the limit recover- . _ able for an inmate's support.'' [ j The case was dismissed.