MAINTENANCE CASES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 11

MAINTENANCE CASES

Maintenance cases in the Magistrate's Court to-day were dealt with by Mr. T. B. M'Neil, S.M. Claude Hall Clarke was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, to be released on payment of the arrears, £3 lls, on an order made in respect of his child. For being £7 5s in arrears on an order made in respect o£ his wife, Ronald Thomas Ferguson, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the warrant to bo suspended as long as he pays 27s 6d a week.

A sentence oE one month's imprisonment was imposed on James Edward Glanvillo Hindson, who was £27 3s in arrears on an order made in respect of his child. The warrant is to be suspended aa long as lie pays 25s a week. A warrant was issued for the apprehension of.Percy Albert Brown, who is £55 10s in arrears, on an order made in respect of his wife. . '

"This is the eleventh occasion on which I have had to sue this defendant," said the Maintenance Officer (Mr. J. F. Manning), when Harold Oakley Browne was charged with being £5 in arrears on an order made in respect of his father. The officer withdrew the information as the money had just been received, but asked that the defendant should be fined as he only paid on the morning that the case was set down for hearing. The defendant was fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment. Robert Selwyn Brook, who is £fl 10s in arrears on an order made in respect of his wife, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as lie pays 2os a week. For being £5 in arrears on an order made in respect of his child, Percy Jason Carlyle was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the warrant to bo suspended as long as lie pays 11s a week. Cyril Amos Chinnery, whom the Maintenance Officer described as a man who would not pay ilnless he was forced to, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for being £16 12s in arrears on^ an order made in respect of his child. The warrant is to bo suspended as long as ho pays £1 a week. Leonard Walter Corlctt was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for being £25 in arrears on an order made in respect of his wife. The warrant is to be suspended as long as he pays 30s a week. Euiil Joseph Dean, sued for the twentyfourth time, according to the- Maintenance Officer, was sentenced to one month's i imprisonment, to bo" released on payment of the arrears, 30s. on an order made in respect of his child. I A sentence of two months' imprisonment ! was imposed on Patrick Egan, who was £12 in arrears on an order made in respect of. his child. The warrant is to bo suspended as long as he pays 30s a week. James l'Vew, who was £B in arrears on an order made in respect of his two children, was 1 sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the warrant to bo suspended as long as he pays £2 a week.