LIVING AS STRANGERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 214, 10 September 1928, Page 11

LIVING AS STRANGERS.

NORTHCOTE MAN AND WIFE. QUARREL SEVEN TEARS AGO. HUSBAND WANTS A FRESH START. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. As he and his wife had lived as strangers in the same house, where they occupied separate rooms, for the past seven years, Dennis Rowles, a railway employee, of Otahuhu, to-day endeavoured to terminate this state of things by applying for an order for restitution against his wife, Margaret May Rowles. The parties lived until recently at Northcote. The petitioner said he married respondent in Australia in October, 1911, and after living in Brisbane for a time they came to New Zealand, where he was employed by the Railway Department. There were three cluldren. For seven years, owing to a difference, his wife and he had lived practically as strangers. On May 14 last he wrote to his wife telling her of his transfer to Otahuhu and suggesting that they should endeavour to start afresh in new surroundings and resume their early relationship. He also saw her twice and endeavoured to effect a reconciliation, but she told him she never wanted to see or hear him again. Petitioner said he was anxious to have his wife back and he was prepared to make a home for her near his work. The petition was adjourned to enable corroberative evidence to be furnished.