SUIT FOR DIVORCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 141, 14 June 1917, Page 6

SUIT FOR DIVORCE.

CASE FOR THE RETITIOXER.

An application for divorce from his wife, Susan Virgin Baron (Mr. W. P. Anderson), was made by Peter Baron (Mr. R. W. McConnell), at the Supreme Court before his Honor Mr. Justice Stringer to-day.

Mr. McConnell stated that the case resolved ibseif into a question of whether the petitioner was deserted by the respondent, or whether the respondent was deserted by petitioner. The parties were married in Tasmania in 1904, and subsequently came to Auckland, where they lived for some years. Respondent kept a boarding-house, and petitioner worked in the country as a sawyer. This necessitated his being absent from home for lengthy periods. Subsequent 1)-, as the result of several incidents which occurred during his absence, petitioner bought a farm at Port Charles, Coromandel. His wife, however, refused to go there, and he sold out and came back to Auckland. On his return his wife refused to live with him or to allow him in the boarding-house. He bought ;i house nnd asked her to come there and live with him, but she refused, and had refused to live with him since. She had sued him for maintenance, and the case was dismissed. Then she sued him for a separation order and maintenance, and an order was made for the maintenance of the children. The case is proceeding.