UNUSUAL CASE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 28 May 1919, Page 5

UNUSUAL CASE

MOTHER'S CHARGE AGAINST

DAUGHTER

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION ) , CHRISTCHURCH, May 27. At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., Mary Corline Pointon was charged, on the information of her mother, with being an idle and disorderly person. After hearing ihe evidence*" of complainant and her- son, his Worship dismissed the information, remarking it was a most unusual charge for a mother to make against her own daughter. It had been proved that the girl had means of support, and was not a: vagrant in any sense of the term. Costs totalling £7 5s were allowed against the mother, including a return train fare to Oannaru, where the girl was working when arrested on Wednesday last.