NOT HIS CHILD.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10267, 14 April 1926, Page 5

NOT HIS CHILD.

ALLEGED FATHER PAID MAINTENANCE FOR TEN YEARS.

ORDER CANCELLED

AUCKLAND, April 13. A maintenance case of a most unusual nature came before the Police Court this morning when a sea captain made application for the cancellation of an order for maintenance of a child. The order, made ten years ago. was for 25s per week, the child having been sent to a State home. However, the order has since been reduced on several occasions when the matter came before the Court, and latterly it had been for 10s per week. * In support of the application, Air. Gatenby stated that the applicant had been supporting the child which was black, although he knew full well that it was not his own child. His wife was a white woman also, and for the sake of appearances he had been maintaining it. It was not until recently that he was able to prove that the child was not his.

Counsel produced an affidavit from a medical man stating the child was palpably black, and had very little European blood in it. Sergeant Calwell, who appeared for tire police and the Education Department, stated that the arrears amounted to £2B. These should be paid if possible. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.AL, in cancelling the order, expressed the opinion that the order should never have been made.—P.A.