WIFE WON'T COME HOME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17726, 10 September 1919, Page 9

WIFE WON'T COME HOME

A PROLONGED HOLIDAY. UNUSUAL MAINTENANCE CASE. W,, maiDteDan ? e J ms Z with some unusual features oceupjed the attention of the Magistrate (Mx H. Y. Widdowson) in the City Pohce Court yesterday morning when Mittio Facoory was charged with attempting to leave New Zealand without making provision for his wife and child. oCwfff canned £3 per week maintenance, and also asked for a bond of £103 as for-the payments. Mr B. S. Irwin ap !u T t] 2?- Counsel deBcanbed the petition as a joke. About three years ago Facoory's youthful wife nad left .?) m ,, , a six - w «eks' holiday to the North Island with her mother. She had extended her stay over years, and at present she was at Te Aroha. Defendant had written to her at Tanous times asking her to return, but had received no answer As ho was unable to leave his employment, he had sent has father up to bring her home, • °v ? en " em , a ? , had waited threo nionths ,n Napier for his errant daughter-in-lo.» I# bnt she had refused to meet him. Previous to this application the, wife had made no claim whatever on her husband for maintenance, and his client was prepared to enter into any agreement provided his wife would come to Dunedin, and he was willing ihe defendant said m evidence that ho had lu-edmDmiedm for 13 years. He had been to Mastcrton once before his marriage was now 21 years of age. In answer to had received from his mother-in-law the following eloquent reply, sent from To Aroha and dated May, 1917 •_" I don't Ti-aiit no one to come to take her If her father comes out of the grave to tell me to send her, I won't send her till her husband comes to take her." Mr Irwin re marked that as defendant had previously been threatened with personal violence bv his mother-in-law, he was in a quandary His Worship said the nolico could communicate with Auckland and ascertain whether the wifo wished to lay a claim for maintenance, and bound over the defendant pcA e in has own recognisance of