DISSOLVED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 3

DISSOLVED.

MARRIAGE TIES.

THIRTEEN DIVORCES.

A number of undefended divorce petitions were heard before Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day.

Ruth Gladys Gregory petitioned for divorce from Kdward John Gregory on the ground of deeertion. He had left her, she said, in 192K, and had done, nothing to support her for the past ten years. "As a matter of fact, I kept him for the six years before that," ehe remarked. A decree nisi wae granted. After Nine Years. After about nine years of fairly happy married life his wife began to go out late at nights, and then !eft him to go in the company of another nan, said Leslie Aetley Clement (Mr. Bono) in seeking divorce from Eileen Clement on the ground of her adultery with Louis John Thome. Petitioner said the wife, in 1938, left home and we.nt to a house where she said ehe had a position. She then admitted she was interested in another man, and later she took a flat and lived with the man under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Thorne. She had taken their two children to live with her. After hearing corroborative evidence, his Honor granted a decree, nisi, with costs against the co-respondent and custody of the children to the father. Various Causes. On the. ground of mutual agreement to separate remaining in force for more than three years, petitions were granted as follows:—Mary Emily Hewitt (Mr. Field) v. Edward Hewitt; Dorothy Muriel t'hristensen (Mr. Nutsford) v. Raymond Oliver Chrwte.nsen; Ethel Constance Miller (Mr. Matthews) v. Cecil Roy John Miller; Doris Leary (Mr. Bone) v. Francis Thomas Leary; Hazel Cairns (Mr. Hall Skelton) v. James Robert Cairns; Olive Beatrice Peters (Mr. Hall Skelton) v. Andrew Peters.

Desertion was the ground on which petitions were granted as follows: — Letitia Farmer (Mr. Nutsford) v. Walter Matzen Farmer; Kowland Boden (Mr. Matthews) v. Florence Emma Boden.

Petitions granted on the ground of failure to comply with orders for restitution of conjugal rights were: — Margaret Locke (Mr. Leniiard) v. Albert Frederick John Locke; Jamee Francis Charles Bradley (Mr. Lennard) v. Mary Imelda Ormond Catherine. Bradlev; Isaac O'Dell Railey (Mr. K. S. Burt) v. Kathleen Winifred Railey. Orders of Restitution. They had lived for some time with his people after their marriage, but his wife, had started a home-cookery shop and they lived in the attached premises together until he enlisted, said Wesley Howard Martin (Mr. Bone), in petitioning for an order requiring restitution of conjugal rights. The wife's father had financed the shop, added the petitioner. After seven weeks in camp he had been discharged medically unfit owing to an ankle injury. On his return lie found the wife's demeanour to him had changed. She told him she had lost affection for him. He went to his parents' home for a few days, hoj-ing she would change., and when he proposed to return to the shop premises the wife declined to have him there. He had another home for her.

An order that the wife should make restitution within 14 days was granted.

William Oscar Smith (Mr. R. S. Burt) petitioned for an order requiring restitution of conjugal rights by his wife, Edna Smith, who had left him in March last. An order was made accordingly, 14 days being allowed in which to comply.