DIVORCE DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1938, Page 8

DIVORCE DAY.

MANY DECREES. UNDEFENDED CASES. CLAIMS OF DESERTION. SEPARATION GROUNDS Tv,«.v-i-iulit petitions for divorce v. o.v -01 d..\vn :\,r hearing in the ■■■■'■■ ■ < " - :rt i lii- in. irn I ml: be:'oie Mr. ;; ' l ul-aii. There Wi iv ai-o four i >•* f.-r restitution of conjugal ' » >i tpetition*. 1:3 were -e 1 oil ,-i'i ;at i...11 orders or ajti'uc- . .!• Ull t. ll*- 1 «!'OUinl> <• t titt-L'!"- ,!:.»[ iuwr ru-i w. iv «:>:i the lmouiiiK "f rv and <>f i'ai',ure to >.->>1111«1 A :ih..s:..t <•! undefended i!i'.ua- aheard 're Mr. ■ ,1 in tin- Supreme (.mut. BEFORE MR. JUSTICE CALLAN. i oe- ba-od ■ 'ii separation orders or writ': — Francis (Weil Flet1. T iMf. t_oalei-i ti-jain-l Sylvia liet- -• :: i-i!i;a Ann Marv iavior (Mr. I ' i a.-.iin-: I in'trl.* *Fredci irk La>..-. • Sairh-y l!!a none Ma! Maretto 1 Si:pperj iiuain.«t Vernon Lyiil A.-y; Bo ft ha Elizabeth Mitchell Mr. i 11 a_uin-t James Hubert Mi* (Mr. Singer). Adultery \\a» tne grounds for decrees in following ca-es:—Florence Tugela Hoi'k (Mr. Sullivan) against Russell El ilia u > Ir. «,k; l.ilbert Milne sibling (Mr. S-:!iivam ag.in-t Ivy <j Wendoline

t Failure to Comply. ? On tim lt! of failure to comply with a iv-lit u: i..11 onlor, a diM-reo wa < - j in iln i-a.-e of l'hilip Woodward • ' Jif. Hill ."iki li-.ii .. auaiu.-rt Jii.a Merk* » W •<! .>.;. -.1. t liis 3 f..ii:.r made decrees on the ground ; <>I d,-fi t .1.11 in the fullo-.v:!!.! c.im**: — ; I'hyiii- llei ge {Mr. Hall Skeltoni c Xorman Sydney JI crJ >**:t I'.erge: - M "i- :!- Hiidi Spariioii (Mr. Xoblel ; a;.'.' -ii-c hdward ' larence Spanion. i' Hart (Mr. Simr>-r i was granted .! -u'.-r.-o ni-i on t'u grounds of d. Portion 'l-.ii.-; V. lu ;» Arthur Halt. Fetition Dismissed. T;»» petition for a restitution of eonj j J"'--'! - "I 1 relic Amy Smyth ' Mr. ; Aikiii-,j again-t l.artraiu Xuitall Snivth ! was di-mi--ed. J * . I Divorced for Adultery. ! "Ho oi'.. ; .:ni>t ami ~ile wa< ill tlie : | choir in the churcli at Kaitaia." said j li tir.nr-r. Vera Catherine Spill m / rcbi- ; bald (Mr. l>i.k~oTit, who sought i . divorce from inr husband. David Arch.I'ald ( Mr. Ho! mi lit 1 . before Mr. Justice . Callan. (.n the "rounds of adultery. . Ui -s Honor granted the petition. Petitioner said that the clergyman at ; j tin? ehun h interfered and her liu-band j promised to give the other woman up. j Sulise-jiieiitly petitioner engaged iwjuirv . agents who performed their duties in . i Auckland. They said they sui prised ";lf respondent in misconduct and he ■asked them what they would accept to ■•--'i'.ia. e" the case. They refused. " Hamlet Without Ophelia." '"My client." said Mr. Xoble. *'is from Wellington. She has written to me that she ha; influenza and will r:ot be able t > appear." Mr. Xoble appeared for Alice Matilda- Wadley. whose ground for action against Joseph Wadley was a separation order. "Howe\er.'' continued counsel, ''my c:i.-nt has instructed me to proceed: ■' ut I cannot idav Hamlet without I Him! j Mis Honor: It is not so much Hamlet jwi-ho-r. 11.unlet a- Ha inlet without! j 1 !:e-ir!ii ■■■ was d'fonred until the: BEFORE MR. JUSTICE REED. j -V d cree on the ground of adultery i was granted ei the petition of Ivan j .Mian Murray (Mr. Hiomrtel.ii against L'.ian May !.• ll.iy Murray and Alfred ■ -*vi-• Petitioner stated that he was .in engine driver engaged in bush work, and ivj- married to respond nt at Fitzroy. f'l'eat Harrier, and .-übsojuently made a k.-ne in Auckland for his wife : '••• !,;!•■> lie worked in the Kin_r Country. ! ( iiere were two caiklren of the niari ' ire. and on one or h's \isit.s home I from his work in HO> hi- wife informed :ii::i that she was going to ckar out | with Another man. Last year he found; . -he was living with the co-respondent! j-.anted in the petition. j Petitioner was given custody of the. ] . ..iidren. and an order was made for the 1 . i ayiiu-nt wf costs on the lowest iak- J ■ by c-o-rt spondent. | Left With a Boarder. j | A ilp'-ree '.''as granted .James William | , W il-.ii', whose petition a train-: Marie '.Ada W:!f. >: v.u.s on the ground nf adil!- : :erv with Tvl.n wa« ;r. i :ac»! as Petitioner

: stated :".:at the co-re-:- ndest ht»d i.-een ; :i boarder at his house and one -lav wit- : n? v went home to find that hi- wife i ' •>>'.•! To»r had 2011 c. lie fu:»«e«jtiently i i ti n::.l then; living together. j j C<>-tp on the lowest scale'we re allowed J against co-reepondent.

In support of his petition. Thomas Thompson Barnes stated that in January of t!::s year his wife. Olive Hanuv. left him and their two children. He -ui.-e<jneiitly found that she was living with a man named Mate Ilich. who was . named a? co respondent. A decree was granted, with costs I' ll the lowest scale against co-respon-dent.

Albert Edward Pago (Mr. Schramm) was .manted a decree ni-i against Josephine Margaret Page on the ground "f adultery with Let-lie Conk, named as i'o-re.»[ifn<letit. with costs on the lowest -cale against co-respondent. Separated for Three Years. On the «rountl of separation for more "ban tnree years decree* nisi were made in tlie following petition-:—Mar; irie Nippon (Mr. Burton i v. Ernest Cyril Rippon; Amelia Annie Bennett (Mr. ["owlet v. .Tolin Bennett: Grace Mary T.e 1 i Mr. Httband) v. Tom C lenient •Tame- Watson (Mr. Haigh: v. Dor..thy Watson: John Edward Luckens (Mr. Ma-en i v. Kathleen Muriel Lockers: Sydney Dixon (Mr. Bayly) v. Catherine r>iv":t: Neils I'eter Hjalmar Pederson •Mr. Tiesi'ti) v. \ inlet Pederson; George i liar!.'- Renwick (Mr. K. O. Wallace' v. Alma Mary Benwick; Vida Mabel Melvil'e (Mr. Simsont v. David Melville: "*arah Jane Polieandriotis iMr. Nut — t'ordl v. Arthur Polieandriotis; Alice T.earson Richards (Mr. Nut-ford t v. Herbert Arthur Richards; Annie Julian ITutton (ATr. Nutsford'i v. Erie Troutweek Hutton; Walter Norntan Hogg 'Mr. Schramm) v. Thelina Rhoda Hoe?: <olin Xn» 1 Hyland (Mr. Schramm l v. Doreen Winifred Hyland: Gladys FHen Godfrey (Mr. Schramm) v. Maurice 'viV'rt Godfrey; Lee Joseph Grav M'-C'ornnck (Mr. Schramm t v. Beatrice May M<-C ornnck: Erol Francis Verne Foote 'Mr. Schramm) v. Ethel May Foote.

Other Grounds. Failure to comply with order for the ;v-tit tit ion of conjugal rights was the around for the issue of decrees ni-i in petitions by:—John Arthur Fryer (Mr. Wilkin) v. Ste'.'u Mary Fryer; Robert Fry in Martenoen (Mr. Mowbray i v. Daphne May Martensen; Lilian Egypt Kerwin (Mr. Schramm) v. Thomas Denis Kerwin. Star Hague (Mr. Matthews) was granted a decree against Percival James Hague on the ground of desertion. On trie same ground decrees were granted Iris May Heed (Mr. Hough) v. Stephen Reed: Rhoda Carroll (Mr. Fleming! v. John Carroll: Edward Kandall Cubitt i Mr. Mahony) v. Mabel Lu'jitt: Joan Harohl O'Hara (Mr. Dyson i v. Grai-e Mabel O'rlara: John Leslie Ellison (Mr. S'hramm) v. Elizabeth Jessie EUi-on: I.Hian Scollard (Mr. Schramm) v. Peter I"■ i iiris Scollard. Orders for the restitution of coniugal ri_i'iT— were made on the following netit ton* : — Esther Agnes Power (Mr. Gar land) v. Sydney Leicester Power; Alexander Harris (Mr. Yialouse) v. Hannah Harris: Vincent Jerome O'Hailoran (Mr. Nutsford) v. Maria Gabriel O'Hailoran