“DID NOT APPEAR.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 August 1924, Page 13

“DID NOT APPEAR.”

(From “Passing Notes” in Otago Daily Times.) Says a Timarn paper: “Charles Valentine Atkins, who has already been goa-led twice- for disobedience of a mam lean nee order, was charged before Mr. El. D. Mosley. S.M., at the lnnaru Magistrate’s Court recently with being £l3O 19s in arrears of a maintenance order in respect to his children. Deceased, who did not appear, was sentenced to three months' bard labour.”

The writer (or printer) of this- item evidently had Air. Punch in his puri iew, but I have been fortunate °' gGt , ir } first ‘ Mr - Atkinsroot ball record (curious of its kind) was, it may be submitted, quite irreleto P oln * at issue; and his deceased condition should have materially weakened the case for the piasocutmn. Small wonder that he did not appear.” Why call his iiaihties from their dread abode? three months hard, after being goalee! and “deceased”! and HeaWn °r + else ": her , e ) o»Ry knows what tenn of time, he had already done. It is a pity that Air. Hanlon was not i~“t T T ani ’ 1 mean ’ not Heaven (or elsewhere).