UNDEFENDED DIVORCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1935, Page 8

UNDEFENDED DIVORCES.

FIVE PETITIONS GRANTED

Five undefended petitions in divorce were heard by Mr. Justice Callan at the Supreme Court this morning, a decree nisi being granted in each ease. Reginald William Norman (Mr Jordan) stated that he and his wife, Dons Ella Norman, had agreed in I!W2 to separate. The respondent had neglected his home and run up debts. On the ground of adultery by her husband; John James McNeil, a "decree was granted Livinia McNeil (Mr. Guy). The marriage took place in 1018, and in 1031 the husband left Kaikohe, where the parties were living, to look for work. He failed to maintain petitioner, and *he ultimately discovered that he and another woman were living as man and wife at Buckland's Beach.

Evidence of a verbal agreement to separate was given by Mary McCullough (Mr. Hall Skeltori) in the petition against John Key MeCullough. The parties were married in 1922, and there were two children. They were'unable to agree, and though petitioner rejoined her husband at Wellington, after one separation in 1931, matters did 'not improve and she returned with the children to her mother in Auckland.

Clarice Milne (Mr. Hurt) said that her husband, William Venters Milne, left her in Whangarci to obtain employment. She did not hear from him for ;! year, and he then asked her to join him at Opunake. This she did, but because of his ill-treatment she left him by agreement in 1932, ' "