MAINTENANCE REDUCED.
PROFESSOR'S APPLICATION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 3. Judgment was delivered to-day by Mr E. Stilwell, S.M., in the case of David James Richards, former university professor, who had applied for a variation of a maintenance order made in favour of his wife, and also variation of an order for the maintenance of his daughter. Mr Stilwell held that the decrease in Richards's income justified a lowering of the rate of maintenance, and he reduced the wife's order from £4 to £3 2s 6d a week, and the daughter's order from £1 to 17s fid. Payment of arrears, totalling £6O, was postponed for three months. The Magistrate said that unnecessary delay in dealing with the application had been occasioned by the failure of Richards to keep proper records of expenditure and income. He had been strongly recommended to do so, and had bo profited by that advice his application would have been quickly disposed of.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 7
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