£1000 IN ARREARS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 12

£1000 IN ARREARS

MAINTENANCE ORDER "IGNORED” Evelyn Hastie proceeded against William Hastie in the Magistarte’s Court yesterday for payment of arreas on a maintenance order. Mr. D. G. Jackson, who appeared for plaintiff said the order was made in 1921, allowing £3 weekly to plaintiff and Ids. weekly to each of two children. The mounts unpaid were £735 in respect of the wife and £251 of the children. At the time the order was made out. Hastie was chief officer on a boat sailing between Auckland and Tauranga. In 1922 defendant bad been sued for disobedience, and bad then paid £3O, after which he had disappeared. Up till recently all trace of him had been lost, but ‘he had been located at the De Luxe Theatre, Christchurch Mr. Jackson did not now ask for an order in respect of the children, but said that Hastie’s obligations to his wife should be honoured. Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., said that Hastie seemed to have ignored the whole thing, and he therefore sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as he pays 10s. weekly off the arrears and keeps up the current amount of maintenance for his wife, namely, £3 per week.