FAILURE TO MAINTAIN.
TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT IMPUTED. Sentence of a month’s imprisonment was imposed in each of three undefended cases in maintenance proceedings heard before Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., in the Hawera Court to-day. Arrears to the extent of £l2O up to May 10 on a maintenance order for £2 ‘10s weekly towards the maintenance of his live children in an industrial school were shown on the information laid against Daniel O’Keefe. Defendant, who made no appearance, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as £1 weekly was paid off the arrears together with current maintenance. A brother of the children, Evelyn William O’Keefe, who on May 10 was alleged to be £2l behind on an order for 10s weekly, also made no appearance to explain the default, and was similarly sentenced.
A month’s imprisonment was the sentence passed on Tere Kururangi, the information against whom showed £29 10s in arrears On April 12, reduced to £l9 10s by a payment made on Monday, on a maintenance order for £2 10s weekly in respect of liis wife and three children.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 June 1928, Page 9
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187FAILURE TO MAINTAIN. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 June 1928, Page 9
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