The habit of some men who have maintenance orders issued against them of evading payment until warrants are issued for their arrest was commented upon by Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court this week (states the Post). The case of a man who was being proceeded against for the twenty-seventh time was under consideration, and the maintenance officer had just complained that the man paid only under warrant for arrest. “ These men trade on the fact that they will be released on payment of arrears,” said the magistrate. ' One of them, however, may get a surprise one of these days.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3885, 28 August 1928, Page 15
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