MAINTENANCE ARREARS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18089, 16 May 1933, Page 6

MAINTENANCE ARREARS

SETTLEMENT REACHED WIFE ACCEPTS OFFER A satisfactory settlement was reached to-day in the case in-which James Vuill was charged with failing to comply with the forms of a maintenance order. The aeeused was recently arrested in Gisborne on a warrant issued •n Auckland 6i years ago, and when he last appeared before the court it was mentioned that the accumulated arrears in respect of the maintenance of his wife amounted to about £500; although the amount in respect of which the- warrant was issued was £37 10s. ,

When Yuill appeared again before Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, Mr S. V. Beaufoy, his counsel, explained that, he had sent a telegram to the complainant asking her Whether fdie would accept £5 in cash, and 10s a week, A reply accepting that offer had, been received, and as £5 had.now been paid into court, counsel asked that the arrears should be remitted, the order varied to 10s a week, and the defendant discharged. The maintenance officer, Mr Chas. Fogden, for the complainant, suggested that the whole of the arrears should not be written off, but that £5 should stand in addition to the £5 paid into court.

Mr Beaufoy agreed to this course, amt the magistrate remitted the arrears with the exception of £5, and varied the maintenance order by reducing it to one for 10s a week.