DIVORCE OPPOSED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 280, 8 September 1936, Page 3

DIVORCE OPPOSED.

ALLEGATIONS BY A WIFE. (Per Press Association. j WELLINGTON, September 7. The petition of George William Willey, managing director of New Zealand Fisheries, Ltd., for a divorce was opposed in the Supreme Court by his wife, on the ground that the separation was caused by his wrongful conduct, the wife alleging that the trouble began when the husband developed a friendship with a married woman and began to neglect and ill-treat her. Cross-examined, she said she had agreed to take divorce proceedings if given her home in Kelburn and £6OO. Sho said she did not want to be divorced, and considered she was a wronged woman. Sho denied saying that she would see his business ruined over the case, also that she would see him bankrupt, as sho had made bankrupt a former fiance from whom she had claimed £SOOO for breach of promise. That, she said, was many years ago, and the proceedings were taken at her parents’ wish. Evidence that strained relations existed between Willey and his wife in 1931 was given by Mrs Moya Amelia Clark, Lower Hutt, who was employed. in Willey’s household for three months of that year. Mrs Johanna Osten, Wellington, who was employed for four weeks in September,l932, said the couple had meals together only when guests wore present. Once she heard them squabbling, and she heard Mrs Willey scream. When she saw her a few minutes later she had marks on her face. Willey was standing with a broken umbrella in his hand. The case for the respondent was still proceeding when the Court adjourned.