GRANTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 9

GRANTED.

MORE DIVORCES.

FAR NORTH TRIANGLE.

WIFE AND BOARDER.

COURT hearings

Amonp several divorce petitions hoard in t.h« Supreme Court before Mr. .lustioe QwHTfam to day was a triangle from the North Auckland district.

Allan Anderson (Mr. Schramm) petii ioned for divorce from his Maori wife. Tfckalcuru Anderson, on the ground of her misconduct with a Maori named Tom Whitinui. Petitioner gave evidence that after he had been a year in New Zealand, from Scotland, he and respondent wore married at Motutangi, X„rth Auckland whore he was a farmer. There wore two children of the marriage and he and , SOt "" Ver - V " n,il the year »■ . . when, at his wife's suggestion. a Jubhc Works employee named Tom VUiitinui, came to their house as a IxYirder. Within a week or two l,e ' h ' fl W ' f, '' s s P p, ' iill friendliness with Whituiui, and a few weeks later he wife went away, ostensibly to a picture show, and did not return. He searched for her and found slie bad booked in at a boardinghouse at Awanui She declined to go back home. She shifted to another boardinghouse. and lie found that Whitinui also was living there, although he was a married man with nine children. Witness said that nfter a fortnight his wife returned home, but they could not agree, and eventually they signed a reparation agreement, and the wife, the day before the signing of the agree ment, left home and left a note admitting her infidelity. A decree nisi was granted, with custody of the children to the petitioner, and cost** against the co-respondent. Marriage Never Happy.

On the grounds of the drunkenness and cruelty of her husband, Hannah Louisa Margaret Taylor (Mr. Singer) petitioned for divorce from John Nichols* Taylor.

Petitioner gave evidence of her husband a persistent drunkenness and cruelty over a period of years from the time of their marriage in 1020 until the year 193.*», when she left him. She then applied for maintenance, she said, but the police were unable to locate her huetand, and she had got nothing. After considerable search the respondent had been located, and served with notice of the present proceedings. Petitioner said that when first married she lived with ner parent*, being visited bv her husband at week-ends. Later she lived in a «x*rdinghouse in Queenstown, then in a tent on various public works in Central Otago, and finally in a farm cottage near Palmerston South. At none of these places, ehe said, was she adequately maintained, and at all times she was subject to cruelty owing to her husband's quarrelsome "nature when under the influence of drink.

A decree nisi was granted. Ada Maria Churchis, a Maori woman, represented by Mr. W. C. Wylie, obtained a decree nisi against herhusband -Aithur Edward Churchis, on the ground "f his failure to comply with on order for the restitution of conjugal rights.