ARREARS TOTAL £986

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 11

ARREARS TOTAL £986

"MAIN-PENANCE .OE -wife AND ""' CHILDREN.

./_,% "I think your Worship will agree } "'ithat this amount is just about a record ■pCao. far an arrears in. maintenance are „.''■'S_oncerned,', said Mr. P. Jackson in <:{the Magistrate's Court to-day, when apV|jpearing on behalf of Mrs. Evelyn Has- '; Jtie, of Gisborne, who applied for an „. order for the _ payment'-. 'of arrears ",'|amounting.itO' £986, which wore-''owing •'-son maintenance' orders made in 1921 ','v.iagainst her husband, WilliamTlastie, in _'3respect of herself and her.two. childsr.Jren. • • '"JJ Tho orders, said Mr. Jackson, were .-'^nade by 'Mr. P. K. Hunt, S.M. Mrs. y*j_Hastie was to receive £3 a--week for 'jjherself, and 10s for each of the ehild£."|ren —a total'of-'£4 a week;'1 The de"rfendant was =_ow"iii arrears-'to -the e'x--;".jjtent of Sc73S on the order in Javour of "vlhis wife and to the extent of £251 on "Osthe other...-At the time Mr. Hunt made ".'.'fthe orderaV.Hastie was tho chief officer Vfjon one o_. the Nprthem Steamship "-.^Company's boats at Auckland. He paid ;^£3o in 1922, and) then he seemed to disappeared. Ho was located this s;>j_ionth, however, at Christchurch, where :-'Jlie was employed in a picture' theatre. vtSCounsel suggested that an order for •tithe payment of so much" arrears each '.Iweek might be made in favour of the .v Jjwife, the information in regard to the V.ychildren's maintenance to be adjourned I'.ijsin.. dio. >'r\ His Worship: "Tho ordor in respect '.tjof the wife is very large, but no doubt' 9>'jthe Court was considering the position '•yHastie occupied at that time. I cannot ?AJvery well'make an order now that will "iijabsorb alt-his salary. You say, Mr. .-; jJaokson, -tn'at the defendant is employ*.Jed ; in a picture "theatre; no doubt he I'Jis an nshSf, or something'of that sort.'* j .*;■■*! Mr. Jackson: '.Not necessarily, sir; j .*y~e might be the manager, At any rate,' ,s*lhe has zrat put in an appearance, nor .■"Sjhas he written explaining his position." ;:a Mr. SarlrhW: "He .seems to have ig;.Mnored the" whole thing." , 'ft. The deFifidant was sentenced to three •£.' months' liriprisoninent, the warrant to „'''be suspended so long as he keeps up the j *_1 order for^j£3.'a. week, and. pays his! *m r, wife 10s *each. week in reduction of the gj: arrears. The information in regard to 'i:± the children was adjourned' sine die.