AGAIN “OFFSIDE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 8

AGAIN “OFFSIDE

EX-UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR HECTIC COURT PROCEEDINGS [ Per Cress Association. J WELLINGTON, June 29. To enable him to consider what he termed a novel submission of counsel, that a person who showed contempt oj. Court should not be entitled to ask favours of it when it suited him, Mr. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, adjourned for a week an application by David James Richards, lormcr university professor, ror cancellation of arrears of maintenance owing by him to his wife and child, and for variation of orders. Once again Richards was ordered out of Court by the magistrate. Richards told the magistrate that he could not pay, and if the Court insisted he would just have to go to gaol. “You have an unfortunate habit of putting yourself offside,” said the magistrate. “1 have given you a very great deal of latitude, which I would not have given to anyone else. It's only because 1 know your condition of mind.” “It’s because I have bad four years of persecution,” said Richards. Mr. Stilwell warned Richards that at the last hearing he had not disclosed very material factors, and the Court would not tolerate that. “It's nothing but injustice,” cried Richards as the nex case proceeded, and nt Mr. Stilwell’s direction ho was forcibly ejected by a I’ourt orderly.