WIFE'S CHOICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 296, 13 December 1940, Page 4

WIFE'S CHOICE.

MADE IN CANADA. HOUSE BEFORE HUSBAND. An application for divorce from a wife living in (anada. on the ground that s| le de-erted him in an unusual tis'iimi. was made in the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Fair. by lieoige Harrv Lawrence Dewhurst. a filler in the Now Zealand Railway Department (Mr. Robinson). Petitioner .-aid that lie was married i'l 10.til in Rriti»h Colutnibia. his wife's name now being Anna (iolida Dewhurst. liile lie worked at. another place, up country in Hritish f'olunibia. his wife re-ided with her parents «t the town of Whitewater. fn February. 1!).?.">. when his employment up country terminated he returned to Whitewater to find that hi- wife had Used their joint bank account to purchase a property which -1V had put in -her own name. Sinseemed indifferent towards him. When he and her parents remonstrated with her about putting the property in her name she wa id that if flie had to choose between him and the projierty r-he would '•hoose the property. She' thereupon -hifted from her parents' heme to the new projK'ity, and declined to have him there with her. She persisted on this altitude till he left Canada iri March. Itl.'SS, and came to Xew Zealand. Here he had got permanent employment, and he had written several times to hi- wife, but her replies were few and far liet ween. He produced one of these letters indicating no desire or intention to join hiin in New Zealand. Mr. West, outlined communications with res]K>ndent. showing no intention on her part to defend the action. A decree nisi was granted.