POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18388, 2 May 1923, Page 7

POLICE COURT NEWS.

♦ MAINTENANCE .OF A CHILD.

DENIAL OF PATERNITY UPHELD.

■ When an ; application for an order ; for the maintenance of a child in a receiving home was made : against a.; man in ; the Police Court yesterday,. defendant said the child was not his and he had no' knowledge of it whatever. It; was stated that the child; was born in 1911 and bore dofondant's name. ■ ''}■'. ;'". v;

In evidence defendant said he was married in 1907 and lived with his wife for only six months. There was one child. His wife left him -and went to Sydney. He obtained a divorce two years ; ago. There was only one child mentioned and he was at present maintaining; it in a home. Since his wife left him she had had about five children which she had registered in his name. v ,; : •;■ The circumstances as related by defendant were not disputed. ."■''.. :. ; The magistrate, Mr. J. W. loynton, said i it .was clear it was not defendant's child and he was not responsible for it. The case was dismissed. s ; SEVERAL ; CASES REMANDED.; On two charges of breaking and entering and theft at Avondale and a charge of vagrancy, Daniel McCarthy was remanded till Monday. It was alleged that accused ; entered a store and stole cigarettes, matches and chocolate, valued at four shillings, and that ho broke into a dwelling and stole £13 10s. . A young Maori, William Nathan, was remanded til] to-day on a charge of breaking and entering and* theft at Portland. ; " He is not quite normal and it is hard to know what to do, with him," said the magistrate, when Albert Newald, aged 22, admitted stealing nine dozen empty bottles valued at 13s 6d. The bottles had been recovered;; The Rev. Jasper Calder, Anglican city missioner, offered to take the young man and see what could be done with him. Accused was accordingly remanded for a week.. '/. - ' -