No Default

NZ Truth, Issue 604, 13 January 1917, Page 6

No Default

— .» Y«t Dragged .to Court Magistrate Bishop Emphatic. ' V- i ii CFlrom "Truth's" Chrlstchurch Rep.) / """ Magistrate Bishop exercised his iwtnorlty In no uncertain torms at Chrlstchurch last Tuesday; when a young fellow was charged m the S.M.s * Court with being the father of an Illegitimate child. Tho defondant stated that he had admitted his . paternity and regularly paid 7s 6d a week without devfaulting and ho was at a loss to know Why he had been brought to court. Thfc 9.M. said he was also In a quandary concerning the reason for bringing the defondant to court. The law on tho subject was dear and no man could be brought up until he-ha/1 DEFAULTED IN HIS PAYMENTS . Ho ordered the complainant to * bo bi ought m, but she could ffivo.no satisfactory reason why the young fellow was dragged into court, although it was suggested that she may have feared that his payments would fall into [ arrears. 7 -"■ Tho ISiM., however, peremptorily dismissed tho case and at the earn o time remarked that mere fear of a. lapse In was not an clement m con- " aider Iny tho matter.