DEBT TO BE PAID.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19917, 2 May 1930, Page 20

DEBT TO BE PAID.

ACTlpir AGAIN3T WATERSIDER. i" ,''■• ««i -' .. . . ■ \ % tTOB MW.SB SneeUl; Serrlee-J " ' May 1. ' A. : whi<it-'herdGwanbed as "a wife were tho wmfffni, .•gaflitay&l ■ >y >,*.'. waterside Worker for his getting into debt when he- appeared before- Mr J. B. McNeil, &M-.y- in- the Magistrate's Court on * judgment summons for £2O 17b. said his average earnings aboinV. £sTa' week. He paid £2 fi&jfor rent. "I took the house on the condition that it was warm and dry," be said. I OwaisehWns it? w ' * No. We ' were" froson ' out, blown- out. and, ■ wish'ed'*dtrt; , s lt ia not a house; it is * morgue , , many 'chiJdren you?" *«kecT counsel <~-• ' Defendant: .None. ,1 have an, in- ' T-alid:wire.\ I* consider that is enough |or me/-, AM,Vny «bney.ygo)» in food. jThe;^Magi«trate: Does it. coot you anything ior medical expenses ?_' ' ' Defendant:* My wife is almost incurable, She was in a sanatorium last year.' , \^' v < '■; '•" * J ' You get 'someone ,in' to, help—Yes, and that all costs money. « - '••• flours seems to be a < very hard ea*B>" remarked the jtfagisUrate,. "but I think yow aJwtfd be able, to, pay*a • small amount, rou'are.mja- v<>ry uiir fortunate position, but you have been 'in'regular work:"" . . Counsel, for ihe creditor 'snid that if d«fe'ftdant'could afford-.to buy luxuries for his wife 'he afford to pay ' ibis...bills, - J .. ■ ~, .. . __, if Good gracious!' What* the ' difference between mutton and fofrl? Tftat.-is all the poor girl can eat.. ; '■■', ,' , - ' Hie Magistrate said it was the duty ©Jvidcfendflnt to provide luxuries for hil*wif("if she vrere ill. was,ordered to discharge his debt at the rate of, £1 a month.

Brj&aift, '/has pajd out altogether £H&iOOO#H)G in- War pensions up to MarjsMlst, 1929; but-the actual year's shoved a' /decrease of ]&2fiß9jm'''otL tn*' previous 'year. •"t - K ; ,: - \ ■ ,■ i - -