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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12190, 11 June 1907, Page 7

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I)l ; \EDl\\ June 11

Tn the t;f • of John Hod -on, mine manager, charged with tailing to contribute five nhilimi's a week towards the support ot Elizabeth Hodson, iii-> wife, defendant r>aid be just got work at 12s per day after serving a third term of imprisonment for failing to obey a maintenance order for his wife's support. lie would not give a shilling to support a woman who had carried on a 1 -' hi* wife hud done, not even if it would mean the sea ft old to-morrow. The Magistrate sentenced Hodson to three months "imprisonment with hard labour, the warrant t oeb withheld till the July pay day in order to <jive thenc^-used the opportunity of paying oft the arrcans due.