TIES BROKEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1940, Page 8

TIES BROKEN.

DIVORCE PETITIONS. ELEVEN DECREES GRANTED. ALL SUITS TOTOPPOSED. Eleven unopposed petitions for divorce were heard before Mr. Justice Callan in the Supreme Court to-day, and decrees were granted in all cases. Having left her husband a year after their marriage on account of his violent behaviour to her, she had had the greatest difficulty in getting maintenance from him. or in getting into communication with him, declared Doreen Rachel Cuff in petitioning for divorce from Archibald Arthur Cuff. Petitioner said her husband drank freely and was a card gambler, and whea she made objections he was violent towards her. Finally, when she said she had decided to go, her husband told her she would not get a penny from him. She had been forced to leave home in March, 1936. and had not lived with her husband since. Her husband's name wa» Archibald Oarrington, but it had beea set down as Archibald Arthur in the marriage certificate. A decree nisi was granted. 5 "^ ___ ' ■'*"* WIFE LEFT HOME. Some discussions arose between him and his wife over her association with another man. said Ernest Henry Ford (Mr. Robinson), who petitioned for divorce from Marion Evelyn Ford on the ground of desertion. Petitioner went oa to say that he was a farm labourer when he was married in 1929, and six years later his wife left the place they were living in at Cambridge to go shopping, and did not return. He had found where she was and had visited her and hail written asking her to return, but ahe had declined to go back. A decree nisi was granted, t ■ **> MUTUAL SEPARATION. Petitions granted on the ground ef mutual separation were:—Gladys Eileen O'Xeill (Mr. Xutsford), v. * William O'Neill; Thomas Henry Hopkins (Mr. Robinson), v. Ada Mary Hopkins; Xellie Violet Bastin (Mr. Singer), v. Joint Alfred Bastin: Christina Emily Aver* (Mr. Robinson), v. Sylvanus Avery. OTHER CAUSES. On the ground of desertion, decrees were granted as follows:—Lynda Foster (Mr. Xutsford) v. William Leslie Foster; Stanley .James Bradburn (Mr. Singer), v. Kathleen Emily Bradburn; Sarah Jane Glennon (Mr. Robinson), v. Daniel Richard Glennon. On the ground of failure to comply with an order for the restitution of conjugal rights, decrees nisi were granted as follow: —Peter Glamuzina (Mr. Robinson), v. Dorothy Evelyn Berry Glamuzina: Reginald Charles Dickens (Mr. Robinson), v. Violet Evelyn Dickens.