INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16571, 2 November 1921, Page 7

INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.

AN AFFILIATION CASE. Ail interesting point cropped up in an affiliation case heard before Mr Wvvern Wilson, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, the complainant, a young woman, claiming maintenance for seventy days she had spent in the Essex Home, most of which time was prior to the birth of the child. The Magistrate said he could hardly allow the Bum as being expenses incidental to the birth of the child. When they got down to bedrock, it appeared that the defendant was being asked to pay for tho girl’s board and lodging for nearly two months before the birth of the child. Mr K. M. Greason, for the complainant, asked if the Magistrate could not hold that the expenses incurred were incidental to the birth, because it had been impossible for the girl to work 1 during that time. The Magistrate : f’in not prepared to say it was impossible for her t-o work all that time. She's a young girl, and should have been .able to work longer than she did. Mr Grestton: It was no doubt impossible for her to get work owing to her condition. The girl gave evidence that she had been discharged from her employment at the time she entered the homo. The Magistrate said bo would allow half of the amount claimed for the seventy days in the home as being incidental to Hie birth. He also allowed a. I claim for ten days’ maintenance of the j girl in the Christchurch Hospital after the birth of the child, and fixed maintenance at 12s fid a week from the date of the birth until the death of the child. The defendant, who admitted paternity. consented to the order.