CONTEMPT OF COURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 16

CONTEMPT OF COURT

CARPENTER WARNED

MUST MAKE PAYMENTS Press Association WELLINGTON, Friday. A warning that he might expect I term of imprisonment if he did not comply with the order of the court was given by Mr. Justice Ostler today to Henry Gastein, a carpenter, who was brought before the Supreme Court for contempt of court in t*'-" ing to make weekly payments of -- 10s toward the reduction of £JM |W to creditors, as required by the prdemade by Mr. Justice MacGregor h February last. Gastein admitted he had made £«' in wages over the period of eigh weeks ending last month. With t® he had paid for board and lodging and clothes, and had paid part ot * dentist’s account. He had about ~ ,J or £6 in hand at present, but out of work. He did not realise ti* payments under the order should made before anything else. He asbeen unable to make headway. The judge: That is absolute nosense. When a man makes loth at. time. _.,j Gastein, in reply to counsel, s he had earned £53 when work . / plentiful. He admitted that be _ said he would pay his largest c tor nothing because of the treatn” received from him. The jndge _ he was satisfied that Gastein * ■ decided to flout the order. »e not going to allow the order ® court to be flouted with i®P u ?UteJi anyone. He decided to a chance by adjourning the die, otherwise he would have t gaol.