DIVORCE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 292, 7 December 1923, Page 10

DIVORCE COURT.

MORE AUCKLAND PETITIONS. JUDGE MAKES ORDERS. The following matters in divorce were dealt with by his Honor Mr. Justice Stringer at the Supreme Court. Augustus Slade (Mr. Inder) petitioned for a divorce from Margaret Isabella Slade. Petitioner said he was a grocer and was married in 1913 to respondent, there

being two children of the marriage. On June 19, 1922, an order for restitution of conjugal rights was served on respondent, but she did not comply. Mr. Singer, for respondent, admitted refusal to return to petitioner. Mr. Inder said the son was to remain with the father and the daughter with the mother. A decree nisi was granted. Joseph Nield (Mr. Goulding), mechanical optician, petitioned for a divorce from Rlioda Nield, to whom he was married in August, 1919. The parties lived together in Auckland. In August last the petitioner obtained a petition for restitution, of conjugal rights which respondent had* not obeyed. A decree, nisi was granted. .

A decree was granted to Ada May Magill (Mr. Dickson) against Harry Magill, on the ground that he failed to comply with an order for restitution of conjugal rights. Petitioner stt>ted that she was married in 1907 and there were five children, now with her. ORDERS TO RETURN. An order for restitution of conjugal rights was granted to Ida Grace Cole (Mr. Richmond) against Philip Henry Cole, of Katikati. The parties were married in 1010, and there was one child. In 1920 respondent left his wife, and when she wrote him in September, 1922, to let bygones be bygones and abandon their present useless mode of living apart, he refused to return, saying it was useless to patch up matters.

A decree for restitution of conjugal rights was granted to Chloris Pauleen Boyle (Mr. Dickson) against Francis Vivian Theodore Boyle. The marriage took place in August, 1921, and the couple lived at Napier. But one Sunday in November of the same year petitioner found her husband with another woman on Marine Parade, and he told petitioner then that he would have nothing more to do with her. He left home that night and had not returned.

Married in England, Winifred Annie Clarke petitioned for an order of restitution of conjugal rights against against George Balderson Clarke. In answer to Mr. E. W. Inder, petitioner said the marriage took place in 1905. Ten years later respondent came to New Zealand to establish a home, petitioner remaining in England. She corresponded with him, but his letters gradually became scarcer until ■ihey ceased. Petitioner came to New Zealand hist January and found her husband after some trouble. He told her they had been separated' for some years, and indicated that he did not wish to make a home for her; An order was made.

Henrietta Emma Hoffman (Mr.. J. J. Sullivan) was granted a decree for restitution of conjugal rights against Frederick Victor Hoffman. The parties were married in 1003 in London and had been 16 years in Auckland. Respondent,' in reply to a letter asking him to try and live with her, informed petitioner that he thought it better for them to live apart. An order for restitution of conjugal rights was granted to Randal Myott Martin (Mr. Rudd), company manager, against Ada Harriet Martin, now in Australia. It was .agreed that service should not be made until petitioner was in New Zealand, and that respondent should be given six weeks in which to comply with the order. A decree for restitution of conjugal rights was granted to Elfrida Delia Parkinson (Mr. Leary) against Kenneth Parkinson, to whom she was married in 1915 at St. Joseph's Church. The parties lived together in Wellington and Auckland. There was one child. In 1922 they came to Auckland and went into a hotel. Recently the hotel was sold out, and just prior to that, it was arranged that petitioner should stay with friends. Her husband thereafter said he was not going to make another home fpr her. A conference followed, but without result.