IN DIVORCE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 192, 15 August 1941, Page 8

IN DIVORCE

PETITIONS HEARD

UNDEFENDED CASES

OVER TWENTY GRANTED

A list of 22 undefended divorce petitions came before the Supreme Court to-day, when Mr. Justice Fair and Mr. Justice Callan presided at the hearings. CASES OF SEPARATION* They were married In July. 1937, and separated in January. 1938, said Grace Mary Sharp (Mr. Nutsford) in petitioning for divorce from John Charles Sharp on the ground that the separation had remained in full force and effcct ever since January. 1938. The petition was granted and a decree nisi was made.

Other successful petitions on the same grounds were:—Florence Ruth Roebuck (Mr. Haigh) v. John Arthur Roebuck; Arthur Biggs (Mr. Hamer) v. Marjorie Mansfield Biggs (Mr. A. Moody); Dorothy Ida Simpson (Mr. Hunt) v. John Simpson; Mavis Neruda Knight 'Mr. Webster) v. John Harold Knight; Irleen Elizabeth Hay (Mr. Webster) v. Erie Douglas Hay; Ivy Jane Bond (Mr. Noble) v. Frank Horace Bond; Frederick Buchanan (Mr. G. S. Meredith) v. Winifred May Buchanan; Clare Ethel Elizabeth Scott (Mr. C. A. Snedden) v. John Scott; Ivy Jesma Hughes (Mr. Clindon) v. Henry James Hughes (Mr. Matthews); Claris Jean Hookway (Mr. Townshend) v. Reginald Arfhur Hookway; Ethel Jean Ferguson (Mr. Townshend) v. Leslie Gordon Ferguson; Emma May Hamilton (Mr. Winter) v. William Reginald Hamilton; Herbert Edward McGowan (Mr. Fawcett) v. Margaret Davidson McGowan.

A L.OXG HOLIDAY About six years after marriage, when they were keeping a boarding house in Farncll. the wife went for a holiday and never came back again, said James Davis Coghlan Griffiths (Mr. in asking for divorce from Beatrice Emily Griffiths on the ground of her desertion. He remembered the time of the desertion. March. 1937, because at that time the lease of the house expired, and the boarding house was taken over by another person, a woman who knew his wife and who later told him his wife had informed her she was not going back to him. The wife told this woman that she wanted to be free.

After corroborative evidence had been given, a dccree nisi was granted.

Also on the ground of desertion, the following decrees were granted: Elizabeth Dorothy Mansfield (Mr. Noble) v. George Mansfield: Sarah Louisa Webb (Mr. Biernacki) v. James Webb; Ethel Coralie Walrond (Mr. Newberv) v. Cecil Bruce Walrond.

DOUBLE BREAK-UP Trouble occurred between them over her husband's friendship with another woman, said Harriett Nancv Smith (Mr. Hubble) in seeking divorce from Roy Christopher Smith on the ground of his adultery. Petitioner said she and her husband were friendly with a married couple in Onehunga, and in the beginning of this year her husband became too friendly with the wife. In May she and her husband separated oh this account.

Robert Douglas Strathbv gave evidence that he and his wife separated on account of the wife's friendliness with Smith, the respondent in this case. On June 21 last witness and a friend visited witness' former home at night, and found Smith and witness' wife in bed together.

A decree nisi was granted. Also on the ground of adulterv Eunice May Saunders (Mr. Townshend) was granted a decrcc nisi against Alan Sidney Saunders.

MET A PAPERHAXGER

"I am bound to inform the Court that proceedings were started in 1939 but not proceeded with for financial reasons, also that in April and May of this year petitioner himself was guilty of adultery," stated Mr. Smytheman, when Percv Melville Walker applied for divorce on the grounds of adultery from Gladvs May Walker (Mr. Newburv)

Petitioner stated in evidence that they were married in 1931. While living in Westmere in 1934 his wife met the co-respondent, who had been sent out to paper some rooms. After home for a short period, in 1937 his wife left him for good and had since admitted that she was living with the co-respondent. A decree nisi was granted.

FOUND FURNITURE GONE

Alleging desertion against her husband, Gerard Denis Lennane, Maud Frances Cecilia Lennane (Mr. Townshend) stated that she went to her mother for a week when she was ill and on returning home found her husband gone ana the house stripped of furniture. She issued a warrant for his arrest, but It was two y >ars before the police found him, at Greymouth. He was in arrears of £200 in maintenance. Petitioner was granted a decree.