HUSBAND'S PLEA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 80, 5 April 1939, Page 12

HUSBAND'S PLEA.

DIVORCE ACTION.

LEFT WITH THE BABY.

"When »# wcn t to visit my nude one night she handed me the baby and «aid 'I wont be long.' But the did not come in, and after an hour I went to look for her and could not find her." In these word* Ante Govorko. a. Dalmatian, described to Mr. Justice Callan in tie Supreme Court to-day hi* wife'* deaertion of him a year after their marriage: Govorko (Mr. Duggan} wm petitioning for a divorce.

He said that he and his wife were married at Hikurangi in September, 1»29, and lived together at Okaihau until September the following year, when his wife left him in ihe manner narrated. He went on to *ay ihat he had the child placed in a home for a time, and then his wife obtained custody. Since she left he had seen his wife only once. In reply to his Honor he said ihat Ins wife had given him no warning of her action. All he could think was that ehe did not like living with him. After corroborative evidence had been given, and Mr. Duggan had explained the difficulty which had been experienced m finding the wife for service of notice of the action, his Honor granted a decree nisi, with a condition that it be not sealed until proof ot service on the respondent was satisfactorily completed by affidavit. "