MAINTENANCE ARREARS
Comment on the amount of trouble to which the Court officials were put before being able to extract money from some defendants against whom maintenance orders had been issued was made by the Maintenance Officer (Mr. W. J. Manning) in the Magistrate's Court today. ' Mr. Manning said that very frequently payment was not made until the most drastic Bteps were taken. Such defendants seemed to have no thought of the trouble they . were causing and the, extra work which the officials had to do. Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., imposed fines of £5 on the following: Henry James Day, against whom no tower than 17 warrants had been issued; ■hmil J. Dean, of Now Plymouth, who had caused 11 summonses to bo issued since March, 1926; Arthur Kilmistcr, of Lower Hutt, in whoso case also 11 summonses have been issued Frederick Tierney, of Auckland, against whom an order• for 4s a week for the support of his mother had been made, was fined £2. It was stated mat lie had been summonsed in connection with arrears on three occasions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 15
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181MAINTENANCE ARREARS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 15
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