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Note: From Papers Past website- Page 3 Advertisements Column 7
Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 33, 8 August 1887, Page 3
WANTED, a respectable person to adopt an infant Girl 4 weeks old. Apply to the authorities Lunatic Asylum,
Wellington, or to M. Valler, Wanganui.
Police Court.
Wanganui Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6290, 9 August 1887, Page 3
NEGLECT TO SUPPORT A CHILD
Matthew Valler was charged with having failed to support his infant child and pleaded guilty. The facts of the case were that the wife of the accused had been confined of a child in the asylum, and Valler had not paid anything towards it's support. Defendant said he could not pay anything towards supporting the child. He only earned between 15s and 20s a week. His Worship not being satisfied that the defendant had the means to pay, dismissed the charge.
Wanganui Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6298, 18 August 1887, Page 2
A question as to the maintenance of a child which was born in the Mount View Asylum some weekis ago, to one of the patients hailing from Wanganui, was brought before tho Trustees of the Wellington Benevolent Institution. The little one had been placed by the Medical Superintendent, and the Relieving Officer with a family in the city, but the Asylum authorities had no fund from which the cost of its maintenance could be provided, and a case brought against the father had been dismissed by the Wanganui Bench, owing to his want of means. The Trustees decided that under the circumstances they must undertake to bear the burden, and authority was given for the continuance of the arrangement for boarding out.� Post. [This is no doubt the Valler case.]
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