Maintenance Orders
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Enforceable Against N.G.
Residents
\ FTER lengthy argument, the Full Court of N.S.W. decided on May 5 that a maintenance order made by a N.S.W. magistrate in favour of a wife and children living in Sydney, against a husband residing in New Guinea, was enforceable by the N.G. Courts against the husband.
A Sydney magistrate, in October, 1936, ordered A. K. Walker, of Wau, New Guinea, to pay £6/10/- per week to his wife and two children. The Supreme Court, appealed to, decided that N.S.W.
Maintenance Orders could not be enforced in N.G. The Full Court, on a further appeal reversed that decision.
This finding is exactly opposite to that of the same court in the Ffrost case (reported on page 16), wherein it was decided that persons living in New Guinea cannot take legal proceedings against persons living in Australia.
Mr. Vic Polsen, of Gizo, a very old resident of the Solomons, died at the Methodist Mission, Sasamonga, Choiseul, 8.5.1., on April 30.