UNDEFENDED DIVORCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 259, 2 November 1931, Page 5

UNDEFENDED DIVORCES.

WIVES' PETITIONS GRANTED.

SEPARATED PROM HUSBANDS

EVIDENCE OF UNHAPPHSTESS

Three undefended divorce petitions were granted by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day.

Florence Gertrude Burrows, who brought a petition against Harold Stanley Burrows, said her marriage had never been happy. She had married the respondent in November, 1914, and had lived with him in various parts of New Zealand. In November, 1917, at Arapuni, they were in "a constant state of quarrel." They decided they could no longer live together, and it was arranged that the two children- should be placed in the care of a grandparent and maintained by the father. A decree nisi was granted. Husband's Habit. . "My husband was in the habit of illtreating, striking, and abusing me,' , said Olive Emily Ra'be, who sought the dissolution of her marriage with Harry Kaibc. She Avas married , in January, 1919, and they lived in Wellington. There was one child. Immediately after the marriage the respondent was out of work for six months, and on many occasions she had to support herself. On account of her husband's behaviour there was much unh.appiiie&i. She left him three times for several months. Each time she returned at his request. In January, 1925, after a reconciliation which lasted only a few weeks, they finally agreed to separate. ] His Honor granted a decree nisi. Threw Crockery About. Evidence that her husband had lost his temper and thrown some crockery about Avas given by Kathleen Williams, who was granted a decree nisi against Cecil Edward Williams. The parties were married, in September, 1923, and, had lived at Ohakune. There were no children. The petitioner said herijjmsband had a "sulky temperament," and she had never been happy with him. He had failed to earn enough to keep her. The climax came in May, 1928, when there Avas a , scene in the house and her husband told her to "get out." While she packed up he went out in a car with a farm hand. She had not seen him since, and had received no maintenance. Discovery of a Letter. A petition brought by Elsie Frances Davies against Leslie Davies Avas adjourned because the petitioner was uncertain of the date of her separation from her husband. She said she married him in April, 1910, and that he was often away for months ut a time in connection with his Avork as an engineer at sea. In 1926 she discovered a letter written to him by another woman, and trouble followed 'until their separation in 1928.