FREEZING WORKERS' PAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 290, 4 December 1920, Page 7

FREEZING WORKERS' PAY.

In connection with the question of the pay of employees at freezing works information has been received that the bonus of 20 per cent and 22} per cent to pieceworkers and hourly and weekly men respectively on the 1919 award rates was tendered on last pay day and accepted at several of the largest works in the Dominion. Employees in the Auckland district are divided on the matter, some, including Westfield and Whangarei, have accepted, but others decided to "wait and see." It is understood that the Employees' Federation will meet in Wellington early in the week.

UNFAITHFUL HUSBANDS.

CASES IN DIVORCE COURT.

A decree nisi was granted Mrs. Maud Amelia Ganrie against her husband, William John Garvie, ia the Supreme Court this morning. Evidence as to misconduct by the respondent was given by private inquiry agents. The parties were married in England in 1903, and there were two children.

In the petition of Mrs. Laura WadsI worth Morris agonist her husband, I Joshua Morris, whom she married in 1 1909, and try whom she had two children, misconduct was also alleged. The husband, it was stated, had neglected her and the children, and used bad language. He went to the war in 1917 and returned two years later. Since then he had given her no support. A decree nisi waa granted. * GONE FOR SEVEN YEARS. Petitioning for a divorce from her husband, Herbert Ernest Rowntree, whom she married on November 28, 1910, in Auckland, Mrs. Kate Rowntree gave evidence before the Chief Justice this morning that he had left her, and she had not heard of him for seven years. The parties lived at Te Kaha. Petitioner said that after the marriage the husband borrowed money from her and went to Auckland to make a home for her. After he left a child was born, now dead. She found later that the husband was living with his father at Ellerslie. He suggested she should find the money to buy a home, and discussed the proposition of buying a hotel in the Bay of Plenty district. She refused to entertain either proposition. She went back to the country, and had not seen her husband since.

The' brother of the 'petitoner having given corroborative evidence, a decree nisi was granted.

AFTER SIX MONTHS.

A divorce case which told the story of a hiisaband who deserted his wife after six months' married life came before the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court this morning. Mrs. Lena Ethel May Black, to her counsel (Mr. Blomfield) said she was married to her husband, George Alfred Black, a carpenter, in 1907, and after six months he left her, and' since then she had neither heard from him nor seen him. She supported herself aa i stewardess on a steamer, after she had been dependent for some time on her brother.

A decree nisi was granted. , CABLE EMPLOYEE'S SUIT.

Alleging misconduct by his wife, Ida Euphrosyne Bundle, during his absence at Fanning Island, where he was employed by the Pacific Cable Company as a cable operator, Percy Frederic Bundle petitions*! for divorce before the Chief Justice to-day. He stated that while he was absent from New Zealand for four years a child was born to his wife. She told him that a man named "Cuthbert" Was thp father, but he had hot been able to ascertain any definite particulars. The marriage took place in Suva, and he left his wife in Auckland when he went to Fanning Island, as he could not get accommodation there. A decree nisi was granted. A HUSBAND'S TRIBUTE. Suing her husband. James Richard Wills, for divorce, Mrs. Ethel Mary Wills, for whom Mr. Garland appeared, told the Court Jhis morning that she was married in 1903, and had one child. While the family was living at Dairy Farm the respondent went away to Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, to get work. Later petitioner had a letter from him—in December, 1916 — saying that no one "could be a better wife to him" than she had been, and that he could only hope that J 'lnah** would be aa good. "Inah." it appeared, was the name of a woman living with him as his wife.

A decree nisi was granted.