LEFT DESTITUTE

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17839, 11 October 1929, Page 8

LEFT DESTITUTE

HUSBAND IMPRISONED.

WOMAN'S BROTHER MUST HELP. Having been left practically destitute with live young children when her husband was sent to gaol at the last Supreme Court session for sheepstealing at To Kuili, Irene Annie Ellis made application for maintenance from her two brothers Walter and Charles Fell. The case was heard before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this afternoon. Walter Fell, farm labourer, of Tuakau, employed by Alma Baker, said he was married with two children. He earned £4 a week and his keep, while his wife received £i 10s a week, and keep. He paid £2 a month towards the upkeep of one child at Wanganui. The Magistrate considered respondent was in the position of a single man and evidently quite able to pay something. lie made an order for payment or 10s a week. Charles Fell, the other respondent, brother of Waller Fell, said he was a sharemilker in Hie employ of Walter Moore, of Cambridge. He had five children, the eldest of whom was 23. The two elder girls were working with him on the farm. When he entered into the sharemilking agreement with Moore last July he had no money. Since then lie had been proceeded against for debts. In his case the Magistrate refused to make an order.