TIRED OF ONE ANOTHER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 February 1916, Page 2

TIRED OF ONE ANOTHER.

A PECULIAR CASE.

A most unusual case came before Mr. E. C. Cutten to-day at the Magistrate's Court, in which a woman sought separation from her husband, also maintenance and custody of the children. The husband, when asked to plead, briefly answered: "I admit the charge"; but there was something about the appearance of the couple that made the Magistrate go into the case. Placed in the witness box, the complainant said: "We arc simply tired of one another."

Mr. Cutten: That is no ground for granting a separation order. Has he not been giving you any money? Complainant: Oh, yes, as much as I want.

Mr. Cutten asked what the wife was prepared to do if she was separated, and got the reply that she would do whatever her husband wanted. The Magistrate next turned to the husband, and asked: "What arc you prepared to do?"

She answer was equally strange: "Whatever my wife aaks." After 14 years together, this is what it has come to, but wherever I am I will always maintain my wife."

Mr. Cutten: I will see you both together in my room at the close of the Court.

After the interview Mr. Cutten returned to the bench, had the case called again, and as neither party appeared, it was ordered to be struck out. Evidently oil had been poured upon the troubled waters.

A deputation from the Whakatane Harbour Board, headed by the chairman (Mr. Martin) waited on the Prime Minister at the Grand Hotel io-day to ask the Government's favourable consideration of a scheme of improvements for the Whakatane Harbour. The Premier promised the deputation his consideration of <*S a>»tter« .^JjjMLu&fa^J^