A CASUAL HUSBAND

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 9 April 1927, Page 5

A CASUAL HUSBAND

ARREARS OF MAINTENANCE.

TOTAL OF £495.

THE TATPOROHENUI CASE

BY TEEECRArB—SPECIAL TO THE STAR CHRISTCHURCH, April S.

Airs Eleanor Elizabeth Smith, who sued her husband, Herbert Francis Smith (Taiporohenui, near Hawera) for £495 arrears of maintenance under an agreement made in 1918, secured judgment for £442, calculated at £6 IQs a month from March, 1921. to NoA-em-ber. 1926.

Last week an order was made , for maintenance in her favour at £6 10s a nsouth front November 28, 1925, 011uirds. Soon after the Smiths xvere married the husband took a dairy farm in Taranaki. Airs Smith Avorked very hard in the early years of their married life. She broke doAvn. Two serious operations were performed, and she became paralysed on one side. She left her home Avith her husband’s consent, and came to ih’e with her sisters in Canterbury. In 1923 Smith, by the death of his father, came into £3500.

His Honour Air Justice Alpers, in giving judgment to-day for the payment of arrears, said: “When thehusband finally ceased the payments because, as he says, he thougth it time to bring her to her sense's, ho made 110 effort- to bring her to her senses by A'isiting her, or even writing to her. His conduct shoAvs clearly not that he was putting an end to a temporary agreement, but that he was shuffling out- of a permanent one.”