Maintenance Cut Denied

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1946, Page 8

Maintenance Cut Denied

A denial that he had reduced -a man’s maintenance payment by 10/simply because his wife was receiving the family benefit, was made by Mr H .W. Bundle,' S.M., in Dunedin, commenting on the announcement on the subject by the Minister of Social Security (Mr Parry). The Minister in his statement referred to “the Dunedin case in -which a Magistrate reduced by 10/- a week the maintenance paid by a man divorced from his wife, because his wife was receiving the family benefit. “I did nothing of the kind,” Mr Bundle said. “There were very, special circumstances in the case as the husband had remarried, and in taking everything into consideration I included as a relevant factor the circumstance that the wife was receiving the family benefit of 10/- for the child. There was no automatic reduction, and in any case the maintenance came down by only 7/6, as I reduced it from 15/- to 7/6.”