MAN ARRESTED ON RETURN HOME AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS AWAY
ARREARS FOR MAIN- " TENANCE OF WIFE
HARD STRUGGLE IN NEW ZEALAND.
MUST PAY OR GO TO GAOL. , (Received 10.10 a.m.) ... LONDON, . October 4. .After seventeen years in New Zealand, Abraham Black, aged 65 returned to Leeds! where he... wsa qnsdantly arrested for the. non payment cf £IO3O arrears for his wife’s maintenance. He admitted that he migrated be. cause he was fed up with, his wife’s friendjsshipi with other men. He landed! in New Zealand penniless and worked for two years feeding pigs m return for his keep. He was given 15k when he left the job and he had lona illnesses. The Magistrate oidered him to P»T the arrears or go to gaol for three months.—Australian Press Assn., United Service.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 5 October 1929, Page 7
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130MAN ARRESTED ON RETURN HOME AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS AWAY Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 5 October 1929, Page 7
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