DOMESTIC FRICTION
A MAGISTRATE'S ADVICE.
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to the "Evening Post.")-'
AUCKLAND, This Day.
"Have you any babies yot?" This was the rather unexpected question put by Mr. F, K. Hunt, S.M., to a woman who was giving evidence in the Magistrate's Court yesterday in support of a claim for maintenance against her husband. "No" was the witness's answer. "Well, it is a pity. That's what.youiwant," was the Magistrate's rejoinder. The complainant expressed her willingness to live anywhere with her husband except at the home of the latter's mother, where he was at present. The Magistrate declined to make an order. "Let the two of them get into that room out there and have it out among themselves," was the parting direction with which ho disposed of the case. Mr. Hunt also had an interesting comment to mako in another case in which a solicitor was askiug for costs in respect to a proceeding for maintenance taken by a mother against her children, including three married daughters. Speaking of the question of making ■orders against daughters, the Magistrate said it would have taken a long time to convince him of the propriety of granting such orders. "It is a new thing to. have a man made liable for his mother-in-law/ he remarked amid laughter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 8, 10 July 1926, Page 7
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